Bridges

Still a transportation marvel, Golden Gate Bridge has eventful past

Deemed one of the “Seven Civil Engineering Wonders of the United States” by the American Society of Civil Engineers, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is a symbol of architectural greatness and an integral part of transportation.

Construction on the bridge started 90 years ago last week, kicking off almost four and a half years of arduous and hazardous labor.

Construction began on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge 1933. (Photo: Golden Gate Bridge Highway & Transportation District)

If...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/still-a-transportation-marvel-golden-gate-bridge-has-eventful-past

FreightWaves Classics: Fix U.S. bridges! (Part 1)

The collapse of an I-35 bridge illustrates what can happen to a deficient bridge. (Photo: U.S. Army Northern Command)

In every state of the United States there are bridges over highways and other roads. Whether you drive a truck, auto or motorcycle, you likely travel on, below or above a bridge almost daily. There are more than 617,000 bridges in the United States. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 42% of those bridges are at least 50 years old, and more than 46,000, or 7.5% of the bridges, are considered structurally deficient, meaning they are in “poor” condition. 

Vehicles make...

FreightWaves Classics: Connecting Staten Island to the rest of New York

The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. (Photo: New York City Parks)

Four of the five boroughs of New York City are islands or are connected to an island.  There are Manhattan Island and Staten Island of course, but Queens and Brooklyn are both located on Long Island. The Bronx is the only borough that is connected to New York State’s mainland.

Background

Whether you drive a truck, car or motorcycle, you will use bridges and/or tunnels to navigate New York City, which is home to over 2,000 bridges and tunnels! A number of governmental agencies manage this...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-connecting-staten-island-to-the-rest-of-new-york

‘Painful mess’: I-40 bridge closure costing trucking industry $1M daily

Repair crew on the Interstate 40 Mississippi River bridge.

The trucking industry has been taking it on the chin ever since the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River closed six weeks ago. The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) shut it down on May 11 after one of the agency’s inspectors found a cracked beam in the span.

Related: I-40 bridge over Mississippi River to remain closed indefinitely

Drivers needing to haul between eastern Arkansas and western Tennessee have been forced to take the Interstate 55 bridge. Though that bridge is...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/painful-mess-i-40-bridge-closure-costing-trucking-industry-1m-daily

+ More