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The 35W Bridge Remembrance Garden commemorates the victims and survivors of the I-35W bridge collapse. [173] It is located off West River Parkway in Minneapolis. [ 174 ] The memorial was revealed to the public on August 1, 2011, the four-year anniversary of the collapse. [ 174 ]
The previous 9340 Bridge, post-collapse. During the evening rush hour at 6:05 pm on August 1, 2007, the main spans of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis collapsed and fell into the river and onto its banks, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The bridge opened in 1967, and was expected to carry 66,000 vehicles per day.
The I-35W bridge failure and collapse resulted in an estimated economic loss of $71,000 to $220,000 per day, depending on how drivers adjusted their trips, Levinson and fellow professor Feng Xie ...
The most notable bridge failure due to gusset plates is the collapse of I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 1, 2007. Investigators found that the bridge had 16 under-designed gusset plates that fractured and ripped, and that the remaining gusset plates were properly designed and remained intact.
“This authorization would be consistent with past catastrophic bridge collapses, including in 2007, when the Congress acted in a bipartisan manner within days of the I-35W bridge collapse in ...
For some Minnesotans, Tuesday's collapse of a freeway bridge in Baltimore brought back memories of the tragic, deadly collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis back in 2007.
I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse: Minneapolis, Minnesota, US: Bridge: 13 dead, 145 injured 2007: Collapse of bridge over the Jiantuo River during construction: Hunan, China: Bridge: 50+ dead, ~90+ injured 2007: Collapse of Cần Thơ Bridge: Cần Thơ, Vietnam: Bridge: 52–59+ dead, 140–189+ injured 2007: Estádio Fonte Nova ...
She noted that the I-35W bridge, a federal interstate highway, was a much busier roadway with about 140,000 vehicle crossings a day, compared with about 31,000 for the Maryland bridge.