One last drive over the Lowry Avenue Bridge
Us Minnesotans don’t mess around with bridge safety these days. The Lowry Avenue Bridge was closed in 2004 after an inspection found a section had shifted 11 inches off center, and now it’s doomed and slotted for replacement. And although everyone’s denying it has anything to do with the 35W bridge collapse, there’s no questioning the intensified scrutiny on the structural soundness of Minnesota bridges.
From the Star Tribune:
The bridge, which connects north and northeast Minneapolis, was rebuilt in 1958, using its original 1905 piers and making them 20 feet taller. The county’s current goal is to begin construction of a replacement bridge in October 2009 and finish in late 2011.
Eluko79 posted this video on YouTube, “One last drive over the Lowry Bridge”
Kind of makes you feel like the bridge is a roller coaster. Again, not something that us Minnesotans like to equate with our bridges these days.
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Not to be inflammatory, but 50 years? It used to be bridges were built to last several lifetimes.
That thing is like driving over a cheese grater. Who ever designed that ought to be hung by his ankles and punched in the balls.
I love the camera zoom in/out sound effect. It kind of sounds like he’s shooting laser beams.