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Mr. Luddite

"iBoaterer" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:51:32 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:53:38 -0400, "F.O.A.D."
wrote:

A fairly substantial bridge carrying I-95 over a river in
Greenwich
collapsed about three decades ago.

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I was over that bridge about an hour before it went down,
couldn't
believe my ears when I heard the news in the morning.

That bridge failed more from engineering/design issues than it
did
from deterioration. It was only about 30 years old at the time.

Again, those "issues" are usually the result of old bridges being
re-
purposed and thus were never engineered to carry the traffic that
they
are getting.

Why not?

Because they weren't intended to be interstate bridges.

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A bridge on *Interstate Route 95" is not an interstate bridge?