re: Atchafalaya Bridge looking tough fellas. Think Gov Landry needs to comment?

Its called making an observation.

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Not sure what those corroded pieces were there for but it’s clearly not for support. The one he shows at the end that “isn’t eaten up” doesn’t have those.

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I wonder if that’s remnants of an old cofferdam or something to hold up form work during construction. It looks like steel I Beams. The internal supports for that bent appear to be concrete and in decent shape.

The scale of it is interesting. Going to cost a fortune to upgrade and repair one day.

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It looks like those are not structural but part of a barrier to keep marine traffic from hitting the actual supports.

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Barge bollards. They are like sacrificial anodes on a boat hull and designed to protect the load bearing supports from marine impact damage.

Should of built a tunnel

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If you pressure wash that, how much more will fall off?

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Hit it with a bleach/jomax bomb and it’ll lighten up

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This seems like a good enough thread to remind people that a study came out several years back now that found more than 40,000 bridges in the US are structurally deficient.

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Member when we spent almost a trillion dollars on this?

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, also known as the stimulus package, was a massive U.S. government economic stimulus bill signed by President Obama to combat the Great Recession, aiming to create jobs, boost economic activity, and invest in long-term growth through infrastructure

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Don't think I've seen any widespread infrastructure investments or improvements--from rail, to bridges, to internet, to roads, etc--since that time. Has anyone else?

Just one of many trillions of dollars just stolen/pissed away.

Gonna need a $40M study first.

That’s not the I 10 bridge over the Atchafalaya in Louisiana. The bridge pictured is two separate spans and the I 10 bridge over the River in Louisiana is a single span. The eastbound lanes and westbound lanes of I 10 are separated, but converge at the bridge at Whiskey Bay.

This is a prime example of why low IQ people don’t need social media.

What you are looking at is most likely the false work used during construction to support either piling operations and or concrete cap placement. Once the concrete was cured those driven steel piles were no longer needed. It was probably cheaper/faster to leave them in place and just use new ones on the next cap.