re: Paging OT Engineers…Dragline Hits Bridge and Bends Metal Girder

They’ll heat it up and it will draw right back into shape.

Amazing process to watch. I got to see these guys from Minnesota bend one back that was a full 90 degree bend. Amazing.

No force. Just strategic heat.

They either over designed/over spent or it should be shut down and repaired.

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so that part would be the pedestrian walkway, so not a lot of load there if so.

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Since I am a lard arse, I might go run up there to stress test it. It is actually pretty fun running up and down that thing. It is The closest thing Houma has for a hill to run up. Bent beam or not, it can get a little shaky with the right 18 wheeler crossing the bridge.

The sad thing is that the planners did not add any street lighting so it is pitch black up there except for headlights at night.

With as many people utilizing the bridge as a fitness aid or pedestrian walkway, you would have thought the Parish or state would have installed lighting either on the bridge itself or along the litter fence to light the path. Like most Louisiana bridges, the state put pads for light poles, but I think DOTD leaves lighting a bridge to the local or parish entity. I remember Terrebonne spending a nice wad to replace the lighting on the Schriever Overpass despite it being a state bridge.

In the near 30 year existence of those bridges, no one has brought up lighting that bridge for the safety of the walkers that use it for exercise and for traffic.

Not an engineer, but it's definitely lost some load bearing capacity.

Some drunk baw from LADOT said it's good so it must be.

And just like the Sunshine Bridge incident the taxpayer will foot the bill rather than the company that wrekt the bridge

Flex tape

Problem solved

I can't be the only one that read the subject and thought of this:

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Speaking of old movies, fun fact before Twin Spans were built there used to be a draw bridge there.

In 1980’s, the made for TV movie Three on a Match filmed a bridge jumping scene on the old draw bridge.

Additionally, the Houma tunnel is reported to be under water.

That bridge is compromised.

Girders like to roll over when under a load , and those cross members that are in between the girders are placed there to keep the girders from rolling over. If one girder rolls then you may have a cascading effect which is not good. Those cross members are bent. It is compromised.

Trial lawyers are salivating.