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Why Bridges Fall Down
They had a useless civil engineer on the Today Show who offered no insight whatsoever into the horrible collapse of I-35W in Minneapolis, and we're hearing contradictory (and defensive) statements from the Minnesota officials about whether the bridge was structurally sound ("While there were concerns about fatigue cracking, the engineers did not [determine] that dramatic action needed to be taken," [Gov.] Pawlenty said"). The Star Tribune quotes a former transportation official wondering if the vibration of the train underneath combined with vibrations of traffic on the bridge to trigger the collapse.
From a distance -- and this is obviously just a guess at this point -- it looks like a simple, tragic case of aging steel succumbing to gravity at rush hour. Too much weight. Look at the photos: Multiple large trucks were on the bridge doing repairs to concrete and guard rails. There are 18-wheelers, a dumptruck with gravel, a cement mixer. When did the collapse happen? At the very peak of rush hour, a few minutes after 6, with lots of people heading to the Twins game. A 2001 evaluation reported that the bridge had early signs of fatigue in the steel trusses. A 2005 federal report said it was structurally deficient. Exotic explanations (terrorists!) aren't necessary.
An aging country full of aging infrastructure and no consensus to do anything about it: That's the United States in the early 21st century. An old steam pipe explodes and creates a crater in midtown Manhattan. The Minneapolis bridge was distressingly average -- 40 years old. The norm, nationally, according to WaPo radio, is 42 years.
From USA Today: "The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that $1.6 trillion is needed over a five-year period to modernize the nation's water systems, dams, runways, roads and bridges but that only about $1 trillion is being invested."
From the American Society of Civil Engineers website:
"ASCE's 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure indicated that between 2000 and 2003, the percentage of the nation's 590,750 bridges rated structurally deficient or functionally obsolete decreased slightly from 28.5% to 27.1%. However, it will cost $9.4 billion a year for 20 years to eliminate all bridge deficiencies. Long-term underinvestment is compounded by the lack of a federal transportation program."
"The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) strategic plan states that by 2008, less than 25% of the nation's bridges should be classified as deficient. If that goal were met, 1 in 4 bridges in the nation would still be deficient. There were 590,750 bridges in the United States in 2000; however, one in three urban bridges (31.2% or 43,189) was classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, much higher than the national average."
When you go through life you have to assume that bridges won't collapse, planes won't fall from the sky, buildings won't catch on fire, power lines won't fall onto the sidewalk and electrocute pedestrians, steam tunnels won't explode, and so on. Otherwise you'd go crazy, crossing your fingers ever time you took a step. [Actually I do that compulsively, but medication is helping.]
But for those systems to work, there have to be people who design them properly, inspect them, maintain them, and replace them when they're worn out. We don't typically know who these people are. We have to trust that such people are out there, looking after our interests. Are they? [Or does the money in the huge Transportation bills go to projects that maximize profits for special interests, Halliburton, Friends Of Ted Stevens (FOTS), etc.?]
Officials in the Metro Washington area tell us in this morning's paper that they're confident that the bridges are safe. I wouldn't be so sure. This area, like many places around the country, has a lot of old infrastructure. I spend a lot of time driving over Chain Bridge, the first bridge ever built across the Potomac, and rebuilt many times since that first 1797 structure. The pilings date to the Civil War. I don't think it's been rebuilt significantly since the 1930s. Here's a picture of a recent work crew.
The city's water comes to DC in an aqueduct built in 1853 and using the same, beautiful stone bridge to cross the gorge at Cabin John.
Much of the city's sewer system dates to the 1870s, when Boss Shepherd decided to do something about the swampiness of the capital.
Mayor Fenty was refreshingly candid this morning on WaPo radio: He said he's going to triple-check all the bridges. Then he talked about the old public schools, where students are supposed to go back to classes in a few weeks in baking heat without hardly any air-conditioning. Worse, Fenty said, the schools don't have the electrical systems capable of handling new air-conditioners. You could put in window units all you wanted, but they wouldn't work with the wiring in those old buildings.
The first parent meeting at my daughter's public high school was in the library and it must have been 90 degrees in the room at 7:30 at night. No way anyone could learn in that.
One basic rule of life: You get what you pay for.
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Marc Fisher weighs in via the magic of our internal messaging system:
"If anything, the mayor, even with his refreshing frankness, is being a bit too optimistic. does the district, like maryland, exceed federal requirements and inspect all of its bridges every year rather than the every two years that the feds demand? Are the District's inspectors testing the supports on bridges for stress? How closely are the fatigued points along bridges examined? Are they x-rayed? I wouldn't worry quite as much about those sturdy stone bridges from the 19th century as I do about all those steel bridges from the 1950s and 60s that were designed to last only 40 or 50 years."
Via the boodle, here's some infrastructure news from Canada.
And a primer on infrastructure.
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Stephen Baker at Business Week says Washington may be the right town for Web 2.0 (thanks for the link!).
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More on infrastructure: Here's Stephen Flynn at Popular Mechanics saying pretty much exactly what I say above, except he actually knows what he's talking about:
" In January 2007, Kentuckians and Tennesseans woke up to the news that the water level of the largest man-made reservoir east of the Mississippi would have to be dropped by 10 ft. as an emergency measure. The Army Corps of Engineers feared that if it didn't immediately reduce the pressure on the 57-year-old Wolf Creek Dam, it might fail, sending a wall of water downstream that would inundate communities all along the Cumberland River, including downtown Nashville.
"The fact is that Americans have been squandering the infrastructure legacy bequeathed to us by earlier generations. Like the spoiled offspring of well-off parents, we behave as though we have no idea what is required to sustain the quality of our daily lives. Our electricity comes to us via a decades-old system of power generators, transformers and transmission lines--a system that has utility executives holding their collective breath on every hot day in July and August. We once had a transportation system that was the envy of the world. Now we are better known for our congested highways, second-rate ports, third-rate passenger trains and a primitive air traffic control system. Many of the great public works projects of the 20th century--dams and canal locks, bridges and tunnels, aquifers and aqueducts, and even the Eisenhower interstate highway system--are at or beyond their designed life span."
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Science bloggers getting together. Where's my invite? (Shunned again.)
This Deep Sea News blog looks fun.
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