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yaesu

(8,020 posts) Fri Mar 27, 2020, 10:35 AM Mar 2020

Pedestrian bridge collapses on WB I-94 in Detroit, all lanes closed, we still dealing with our

crumbling infrastructure thanks to repukes and their fear of taxes

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Pedestrian bridge collapses on WB I-94 in Detroit, all lanes closed, we still dealing with our (Original Post) yaesu Mar 2020 OP

The news report I read says an over height truck took it down. Yonnie3 Mar 2020 #1

I would say that it's because of their love of military expenditures... Ferrets are Cool Mar 2020 #2

Odd DetroitLegalBeagle Mar 2020 #3

Or maybe it was still structurally sound. Igel Mar 2020 #4

Yonnie3

(17,432 posts)

1. The news report I read says an over height truck took it down.

Reply to yaesu (Original post)

Fri Mar 27, 2020, 10:44 AM

Mar 2020

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/03/27/pedestrian-bridge-collapsed-onto-wb-94-near-van-dyke-in-detroit/

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)

2. I would say that it's because of their love of military expenditures...

Reply to yaesu (Original post)

Fri Mar 27, 2020, 10:45 AM

Mar 2020

take half of the money we spend on things that kill and put it on infrastructures and we don't have these problems.

DetroitLegalBeagle

(1,922 posts)

3. Odd

Reply to yaesu (Original post)

Fri Mar 27, 2020, 10:46 AM

Mar 2020

Both bridges on either side of it(Gratiot and Van Dyke) have been replaced in the past 2 years. A lot of the bridges have been rebuilt in that area. They must have skipped the pedestrian ones, or were planning on doing those last.

Igel

(35,300 posts)

4. Or maybe it was still structurally sound.

Reply to DetroitLegalBeagle (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 27, 2020, 11:07 AM

Mar 2020

until a truck hit it.

We can wait to find out facts or we can just blaming the devil for everything bad and ignore reality.

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