Canada Has Been Cut In Half!

[Looking4new]

Hey, its only an 18 hr., 1040 mile drive to get to the other side of the river.

IF your vehicle and you meets the US requirements.

 

[MossRoad]

My vehicle does, but I get the stink eye at customs on both sides of the border.... don't know why, either.... :confused3:

 

[Streetcar]

And substandard bolts.

Do you have a link to article on substandard bolts.
Typically bolts at expansion joint are for alignment. Gravity is the force to hold the bridge down

 

[Garandman]

There are three other major cable-stayed bridges in NA. Notably, the 2,100 ft Penobscot Narrows bridge in Maine has been open since 2006, with no problems. The 1,432 ft Zakim Bridge in Boston opened in 2003. The Toledo (OH) Skyway bridge is an 8,800ft bridge open since 2007. All designed and/or engineered in the US.

A high-ranking official with the Ontario Ministry of Transportation says the bolts holding together a section of the new Nipigon Bridge snapped off, causing a portion of the bridge to rise about 60 centimetres.

Gerry Chaput, the ministry's assistant deputy for provincial highways, told CBC News the broken bolts will be subjected to special testing.

"We'll take the bolts that broke, we'll take them into a laboratory. We'll check the grade of the steel," he said.

"We'll try breaking a few of them ourselves to see what load they break under. We'll look at the structure from a computer-modelling perspective to understand what the loads were to determine what might have played a role in causing them to break."

Nipigon River Bridge bolts undergo testing to see why they snapped - Thunder Bay - CBC News

 

[kevin37b]

And I guarantee the engineer / architect will not take the hit on this . It will be the contractor .

 

[jerrybob]

Speaking of bridges................

A man was walking along a California beach and stumbled across an old lamp. He picked it up and rubbed it and out popped a genie.
The genie said,
'OK. You released me from the lamp, blah, blah, blah. This is the fourth time this month and I'm getting a little sick of these wishes, so you can forget about three. You only get one wish.'
The man sat and thought about it for a while and said,
'I've always wanted to go to Hawaii but I'm scared to fly and I get very seasick. Could you build me a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over there to visit?'
The genie laughed and said, 'That's impossible. Think of the logistics of that! How would the supports ever reach the bottom of the Pacific? Think of how much concrete... how much steel! No, think of another wish.'
The man said OK and tried to think of a really good wish. Finally, he said,
'I've been married and divorced four times. My wives always said that I don't care and that I'm insensitive. So, I wish that I could understand women... know how they feel inside and what they're thinking when they give me the silent treatment... know why they're crying, know what they really want when they say "nothing"... know how to make them truly happy. .'
The genie said,
'You want that bridge two lanes or four?'

 

[k0ua]

Speaking of bridges................

A man was walking along a California beach and stumbled across an old lamp. He picked it up and rubbed it and out popped a genie.
The genie said,
'OK. You released me from the lamp, blah, blah, blah. This is the fourth time this month and I'm getting a little sick of these wishes, so you can forget about three. You only get one wish.'
The man sat and thought about it for a while and said,
'I've always wanted to go to Hawaii but I'm scared to fly and I get very seasick. Could you build me a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over there to visit?'
The genie laughed and said, 'That's impossible. Think of the logistics of that! How would the supports ever reach the bottom of the Pacific? Think of how much concrete... how much steel! No, think of another wish.'
The man said OK and tried to think of a really good wish. Finally, he said,
'I've been married and divorced four times. My wives always said that I don't care and that I'm insensitive. So, I wish that I could understand women... know how they feel inside and what they're thinking when they give me the silent treatment... know why they're crying, know what they really want when they say "nothing"... know how to make them truly happy. .'
The genie said,
'You want that bridge two lanes or four?'

Now that is a good one!:thumbsup:

 

[jel1988]

Couldn't have built a simple concrete and steel bridge, we had to get fancy and build a suspension to save a few dollars on materials and build a light weight structure where it is not needed. Our premier went to have a look at it herself, what could she possibly do? Send the engineering firm (CNC Lavaline Canadian too) and find out what went wrong. The big question is why we only have one land route from east to west in Canada?

 

[MossRoad]

Your Premier went to look at it because your country's ONLY east-west link was severed. If she didn't go, it would be used against her in the future. Look at the U.S. and hurricane and tornado damage. It does NO physical good for the country's leader to visit such disasters. It actually hinders rescue efforts and is a distraction. However, it does PLENTY good to be seen looking like they care, and reassuring people that help is on the way.

 

[Ford850]

This thing is confusing to me. They say the bridge lifted 60cm and shifted to one side, and it was closed. Later articles say they have 1 lane open to cars for now until they can tell if it can handle trucks. Was that lift and shift temporary, and now it's moved back into place?