A cracked beam was discovered in the I-40 bridge between Tennessee and Arkansas, causing an immediate shutdown of all traffic Tuesday. Barges have since resumed travel, but cars are still banned as engineers rush to repair the bridge.
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Tenn, run by rethugs oh well
I wonder how long this was hip pocketed for?
Well the last inspection was September 2020. Must have happened dusting the huge winter storm.
Brent Spence Bridge in Cincinnati is a disaster waiting to happen
This has been talked about for at LEAST the last four administrations…or perhaps that’s when I became aware. It’s never addressed and if it is, then we can’t afford it. Oh and PLEASE, don’t tax anyone. If we aren’t willing to invest in ourselves how do the republicans think they can MAGA? Then there is that old pipeline computer software. Just wait until it’s the entire Air Traffic Control System, for example. It REALLY needs an upgrade. The Arkansas bridge? Oh well. Tornedo takes out three towns? Oh well. 10 people killed at a Walmart? Oh well. Any proposals to try to deal with or address any of these issues are just blocked so this is how American becomes a third world country, and the rest of the world passes us by. Well the republicans don’t want to be part of that anyway. Ha ha. Try to be without it. Have the crap in your house will cease to exist.
False misleading reporting it’s not just cracked . The beam is completely cloven in 2, displaced & separated.
Chinese Steel…
1970’s started shipping jobs OVERSEAS 1980’s Started closing our Steel MILLS in the US. gee I can’t figure out why the steel in the bridge is failing can YOU…..
@Marian Lincoln my Uncle worked for Phoenix Steel in Claymont De . Chinese bought it and renamed it Citi steel…..I was a kid, I’m 50 now. The real old steel Bridges are Good steel, it’s the ones 50 years old that worry Me 👍
Trump buys all the steel for his building from China, …appliances also.
Well, no. The bridge was built in 1973. We weren’t importing steel from China 47 years ago.
The vast majority of our infrastructure was built during the new deal in the late 1930s Through World War II. Our infrastructure were made to last 60 years, no more. simple math tells you that politicians have been kicking the can down the road for decades. Our top engineers rate our overall infrastructure at a D minus. Welcome to the second world country class. Instead of investing back into our crumbling system republican bought Horse gave the top 1% and corporations a tax break for the ages after making record profits continuously for almost a decade. That money would’ve paid for the infrastructure. look up the term “failed state”. And if you made it this far in this post, say goodbye to democracy. It failed. Either Trump and his goons are innocent or this government is so corrupt and inapt that it cannot defend itself from a clear and present danger from within. Accept your part and it’s failure.
I took the ferry from Tennessee to Arkansas this evening.
Kinky. . .
Are you talking about a boat or Pete Buttiplug?
I’m from Memphis… where exactly is that ferry crossing between Tennessee and Arkansas that you are referring to ?
This is on a fault line
@IT’S NOW OR NEVER ok whatever dude, idk how you are able to take a photo from there unless it’s a drone. I’d like to see the footage on your YT with the date on it
@IT’S NOW OR NEVER I live in midtown
@Harry
SO MIDTOWN HAVE MORE CRIME THAN THIS CRACK.
@Harry
MOVE FROM MIDTOWN ASAP!!
@IT’S NOW OR NEVER yeah, no I’m good on moving from midtown.
Perhaps Congress ought to pass that infrastructure bill.
It actually Mitch McConnell who’s holding things UP…. He’s gotten a promise from all of his SENATORS to NOT support anything Presdent BIDEN WANTS TO GET DONE OR FIX FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE….. REMEMBER THAT ITS THE GOP THAT DOESNT WANT US TO HAVE SAFE ROADS, BRIDGES, WATER, OR DEPENDABLE POWER GRIDS….MITCH MCCONNELL AND HIS SENATORS ARE VOTEING NO ON INFRASTRUCTURE FO AMERICANS ABD JOBS.
@Marian Lincoln don’t need the republicans to pass the bill. It’s Joe Manchin who’s holding things up, the wicked traitor.
@Therese Duran he’s a moderate, he’s been sticking to bipartisan policies for years
100 year old water pipes, broken gas mains, deterioration of the roads and bridges, repairs and protection of the electrical grid…..the list goes on and 2 trillion is only a start. And all this work creates Jobs!!!
12 Trillion Max
This fall right into the dems plans of destroying America that bridge will be closed for over 2 years while they think about it and study it.
Donnie did nothing for infrastructure.
Republicans are blocking the infra bill.
Joker.
Biden stimulus plan, infrastructure…. lmao what a joke. 5 billion actually going to what it’s for. The rest going to crap!!!
Memphis so cheap. I drive over that bridge all the time. Ironically there is a newer bridge not even 2miles to the 👉 literally nextdoor. Why they need to stop all those crap 18wheelers
Where exactly is that “newer” close bridge ? I was born in Memphis and have lived there 53 years… ??
@Linda Thompson matters if you are coming from 240 passing danny Thomas or 55 west. You can just take front street I dont know how more self explanatory it could be. Just take the hernando desoto bridge. I have taken either mutiple times going to southland.
Its almost as if we need some sort of infrastructure bill or something.
https://youtu.be/qUAmAES-2o0
Trump!
@B Millwood Trump wanting to privatize the infrastructure plan, Biden’s infrastructure plan will create jobs and help the economy grow.
Well I’m going down to Memphis, Memphis City here I come.
Yes I’m going down to Memphis, Memphis City here I come.
You’ve got a crazy cracked bridge crossing there, that I won’t be going on.
💨💨Well there is I-55, 55 and other ways to get to MEMPHIS. Trust me there is more ways than one. I live 25 minutes away
@1 HAND SMOKE yeah but the I 55 bridge seems scarier and more narrow. Their best bet is to go through Dyersburg
Lol people still live on the east coast?! LOL
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Great stuff…on anything smaller than your hand.
Yet Republicans won’t move an inch.
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I just tried to read your comment and all I got was hauh…? So I asked my husband to read it …. He said you need to find a SAFE corner and wait till you come DOWN off what ever drugs your on before you go on line ANYMORE. …… Stay safe and get some HELP.
clearly hunter biden sawed through that beam
Yep, he used a laptop!
Would that be the beam with the laptop-sized crack in it?
Our infrastructure is crumbling.
That Moron Trump has been announcing Infrastructure Week for the last four years and got nothing done.
There is another bridge for I-55 just south of this bridge. A third bridge should have been in the works decades ago. . . . . oh well. . . .
Minnesota Part 2 smh
The bridge can wait, there’s always a war to fight somewhere.
You clearly don’t live in Memphis, the bridge needs to be fixed now. There’s never a time where you don’t see semi trucks hauling stuff. People in west Memphis also work in Memphis.
@Harry Fix how? All the steel is the same age. This is only an indication of what is throughout, way past it’s ‘best before date’.
Let’s see if there’s enough taxpayer money left over, after all the costs for litigating Trump and his Insurrectionists.
@Harry, please Lord keep us safe. Our only way to Memphis now for sure, a flight on a helicopter. I iiihave serious heart problems.
Hurry guys
No one wants that
🙁
I’ve lived in Memphis
Memphis needs help
Is there one City that bo
@Marylouise I currently live in Memphis?? Never left
Y’all forgot Portland is known as city of Bridges and roses … bridges are so old around here
The Hernando De Soto Bridge is vital to the US, it’s more important because everything comes through here. There’s never a time where I haven’t seen a semi truck, getting on to that bridge to go to Arkansas.
It’s pretty obvious how the crack got there. Racism.
Right, Antifa and BLM did it. Hawley caught them in the act. Rudy has the video, but he can’t release it right now.
Everything falling apart.
Republicans can’t wait to blame Biden for this. “Look at this money for infrastructure and its a giant waste, thanks biden” I can hear them now.
” but we, the republican party,can not vote for a extreme leftist plan to fix this. It is a tread to our freedom!”
Hahaha, the people are getting screwed over AGAIN!
Who cares
That bridge is critical to traffic traveling East to West and the other way and I have travelled across that bridge many times and hope the government can fix it and not have it out of service too many months.
Money for war no money for bridges thank you aipac
Let’s see if, after paying for Trump’s golf, AF1, his endless litigation, ….if there’s enough taxpayer money to try to make American great again.
Antifa obviously sabotaged the bridge to make the Republicans look bad for stalling the infrastructure bill.
“The eyes of history are on this appointment.” – Buttigeig
1964 Japan’s first bullet trains were put in service and the the first Beatles album was released.
1998 China started the construction of 36,000km of high speed railways and high speed trains.
2021 US still has NO high speed railway and NO high speed trains. When was America great?
That’s the remagon Bridge
It’s the Hernando DeSoto Bridge
America breaking before our eyes…
America’s roadways and infrastructure are crumbling yet they want to spend a trillion dollars on military. There’s a lot of pork in Washington and the rest of us risk death on a daily basis because they are incompetent
Pentagon spends over $1 million/minute of taxpayer funds. How else could they afford $33,000/day for Gitmo inmates, or $60 million/day for air-conditioning for US troops in the Middle East.
Lmao those repugs want biden to climb up there with a tool belt while their grand cheeto can bearly strap a belt around his “huuuuge” “very big” “very naaasty” body….
US needs to train new engineers
Haha infrastructure…. don’t worry about it someone else’s problem……. stop kicking the can down the road…. now to fix America’s infrastructure is going to cost way more then it should have.
Only one thing that buttplug is an expert on!!!
This is why we need to waste billions on other stuff…You young people should fight for no wasteful spending. One up or down bill on real infrastructure. Not two years of Pre K for free. At least at this time, after spending four trillion so far. The rich will not pay for this YOU will.
This is why we need President Biden’s American Jobs Plan
The United States Congress allotment of 10 million dollars to be sent to Pakistan for “gender studies” in the Covid relief bill……… BRILLIANT!
RePunkicans spent THREE TRILLION DOLLARS in Iraq!!!!
US taxpayers pay $11.1 million/yr for each inmate at Gitmo. If you want to start listing the myriad ways the Feds waste money, you’ll need many pens and stacks of paper.
And yet the GOP still wants a watered down Infrastructure bill.
And our senators in Arkansas will most likely vote against bidens inferstructer bill. Been putting it off for way to many years
Tina Turner said it best in Proud Mary…… And we’re Rolling on the River⛵
John Fogerty wrote that, but yea, I get your gist.
This is why infrastructure is needed. I’ve always had a little anxiety driving over that bridge
And now you know why the president wants to do the infrastructure
A great opportunity! Without died!
Thank God Joe Biden is our president 🙏 We now have money for bridges!
Congress has to say, “Yes.”
Geez ……a dangerous bridge in a RED state ??/ Whoda thunk it !!!! Guess those half dozen infrastructure weeks in the previous admin never got around to fixing that bridge ….. Just a thought !!!!
Can’t fix the bridge …..Would have to tax major corporations to find the $$$$ ….Republicans won”t accept that …..Maybe T**** can get Mexico to pay for it ….
Well where is the democrats infrastructure money? Get it fixed!
Would have swam across…
The big rigs tore it all up. They haven’t had a diesel tax increase in decades. That’s supposed to pay for maintenance.
They should pony up the repair money. If the gov’t subsidizes them to keep the shipping costs down,
then that’s called Socialism…. We know how much you hate that.
There’s 2 bridges next to each other. Thats the old one use the new one
And the Republicans insist we don’t need infrastructure.
Republicans are too busy using taxpayer funds to pay for litigation costs for all their law-breakers, ….from Trump on down.
All the engineers are calling for these problems for more than 10yrs right ?
Various engineering organizations have been calling out the problem for many more years than ten.
Why ? …. why … ???
Have they fixed the water in flint yet? Obama was big on infrastructure yet here we are
The money comes from Congress.
@William Swenson barry had both houses 2 years
states failure to inspect bridges and to demolish and build new ones. Its not the federal government! Stupid people wake up they steal taxes from you and line their pockets!
GOP run states infrastructure at it’s best……….again.
Yet they give Pelosi 140 million dollars for a subway in earthquake alley and no God nadler 100 million for a bridge out of the covid relief bill….w t f…..the money the dems are pocketing personally alone could fix this bridge….
Force Mexico to pay for repairs
Send Don Jr (and his shouting g.f) down to Tijuana with a tin cup, to ask for donations from folks walking by on the sidewalk. She can walk behind him yelling “THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!”
Absolutely! Always go with a winner!
So paying tolls doesn’t go towards fixing the bridge?
You’d be amazed to find out how often it goes into the general fund so that pols can dole it out to their pet projects. You know; the ones that get the votes to stay in office.
It looked cut not “cracked” to me
Isn’t Biden proposing an infrastructure plan? I hope the Tennesee representatives vote for it. Now’s no time to play politics!
I’ve used epoxy and reinforcing materials to good effect. I built a 3 acre outdoor Rock Climbing park in Thailand. It had 5 zip lines and the biggest swing in Asia. …just sayin’
Put McConnell in the middle of the bridge locked in an 18 wheeler then line the rest if the bridge with 18 wheelers. I’ll wait to see if he changes his mind on infrastructure😈
Republican states they don’t want the federal money for repairs so screw them let the bridge collapse.
Trump fault !
Wonder if its made out of cheap imported steel.?
Built in ’73. Nope.
infrastructure bill really doesn’t cover what we really need. How does putting low income hud housing in suburban cities qualify as being in the infrastructure bill. This is nothing but a garbage bill that needs to be voted out and only focus on Infrastructure such as bridge, water and sewer, streets, and railroads and nothing else.
Wait didn’t a man propose a bill that will fits a lot of bridges and roads. I think his name was Joe Biden that’s something like that
everything is old in the us…
Spend our taxes on infrastructure!
All the more reason to pass the Infrastructure bill. Republicans don’t get it. They would rather see the regular citizens drown & sink in the quick sand that McConnell & his croonies who quit working for the people & continue to make their first priority themselves. They aren’t working for their constituents but rather for Trump who is doing his best to destroy the Republican party. Who does Trump own? Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, Marjorie Greene, Hawley, DeJoy, Matt Gaetz & the list goes on & on & on.
Instead of fighting Israel’s wars we should fix our own stuff and be in our own hemisphere
Yet GOP is against the infrastructure bill. Smh..
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I blame Trump and covid
Republicans and their supporters doesn’t care about that bridge just look Republicans run the state and doesn’t repair their own structures and their supporters love it. If it was to fall into the river they’ll be so happy
Does anyone remember the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis? That bridge was just forty years old when it failed in 2007. Its collapse resulted in the death of 17 people. Are the Republicans in Congress listening or do they simply not care?
infrestructure weak
Lots of rust on that bridge, would be nice to find out where the money went that was supposed to take care of maintenance. It went somewhere.
ALL I CAN ADD IS SLOW DOWN AND BE SAFE. 🙏🏼😊🙏🏼
Where is Supergirl when she is needed?
Yet our elected leaders send billions of aid to foreign nations. Makes no sense to me
Goes to show how , the government will pass a bill quick to set up funds to track down a malware group, but won’t be so quick to do so for the bridges to keep the citizens able to work let alone keep safe physically/financially
Four years of false charges against Trump instead of addressing infrastructure
what’s the big deal?
just clamp it tight and weld it shut, be done in an hour 😀
Yeah keep pumping that money into defence of the “country” while the roads and bridges go to trash. Big business of military at a boy keep them billions coming …. F a bridge 🌉 I m wealthy.
Tonight on FOX News, Newsmax, and OAN: “Now the Marxists want to cancel our great heritage of patriotic vintage bridges. Our Conservative bridges, our liberty! 🎆🎇🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅MAGA”
This current administration only put 9% of the multi trillion dollar bill towards actual road construction infrastructure
INVEST IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE
One less carrier fleet show muscle exercise in Asia is enough pay for a new bridge.
Minnesota & west virginia/ohio; it could be history repeating itself. That’s absolutely terrifying!!
WHY oh why are we calling this a ‘cracked’ bridge member? This bridge member is clearly ‘broken’ or ‘failed’. ‘Cracked’ implies it has some capacity to support it’s intended load. If this bridge member were removed from the bridge it would be in TWO pieces.