I-95 Shut Down

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Drivers began longer commutes Monday after an elevated section of Interstate 95 collapsed in Philadelphia a day earlier following damage caused by a tanker truck carrying flammable cargo catching fire.

Sunday’s fire closed a heavily traveled segment of the East Coast’s main north-south highway indefinitely. Newscasts warned of traffic nightmares and gave advice on detours, urging drivers to take more time to travel.

“This is really going to have a ripple effect throughout the region,” AAA spokesperson Jana Tidwell said Monday. She advised people to avoid peak travel times.
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https://www.mcall.com/2023/06/12/long-commutes-start-after-part-of-i-95-collapses-in-philadelphia-following-tanker-truck-fire-2/

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It's early, but I've heard some suggestion that this may not be accidental??
 
Who knows? All I can tell you is, there are two major highway projects around here suckling on "build back better" money.

One is a major highway interchange that was old school cramped, but serviceable. And it still is serviceable. They made improvements that added leeway and safety. But they're still at it, looking to replace the standard cloverleaf ramps with almost a mile if skyride bridges to fall down, or for people to fall off of, or to get coated in our famous intermittent glare ice in the winter.

The other is also miles of bridges, a turnpike above a swamp.

There's a thread around here about them dreaming up ways to kill us...
 
TheTexan said:
Very likely that Russia is behind this terrible terrorist attack.
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donnay said:
No, no, no, it was Donald Trump's fault!
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A tanker burned under a Tulsa interstate bridge a few years back. Traffic was detoured around it before the fire was put out, and kept that way until the bridge was cool enough to inspect.

I guess Philadelphia is unsophisticated, and ignorant about such matters, as compared to Tulsa, Oklahoma, F.C. (Flyover Country)?
 
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A tanker burned under a Tulsa interstate bridge a few years back. Traffic was detoured around it before the fire was put out, and kept that way until the bridge was cool enough to inspect.

I guess Philadelphia is unsophisticated, and ignorant about such matters, as compared to Tulsa, Oklahoma, F.C. (Flyover Country)?
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Because sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
 
Send Philly some road construction crews from the Houston area and they will easily have this repaired within the next 8 years or so.
 
Sounds like a rookie mistake tbh.


Remains pulled from collapsed I-95 overpass wreckage as tanker driver is ID’d

The body was discovered in the cab of the truck as workers cleared the wreckage of the overpass near the busy highway’s Cottman Avenue exit, according to the local ABC affiliate.

Officials said during a Monday press conference that the driver was attempting to make a gas delivery at a local Wawa station when he failed to accurately navigate a turn near the Cottman exit.

This led to the tanker flipping on its side, with the truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gas erupting in flames and shutting down I-95.
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