TRANS Portion of I-95 northbound shut down for several days after truck strikes bridge, officials say

[Macgyver]

Poor rt 95 just can't catch a break

Portion of I-95 northbound shut down for several days after truck strikes bridge, officials say

Traffic will be shut down on I-95 northbound after a bridge was struck by a truck carrying a large shipment Monday afternoon, officials said. Here are alternative routes drivers can take to avoid delays.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com

Portion of I-95 northbound shut down for several days after truck strikes bridge, officials say​

A truck carrying a large cylinder struck an overhead bridge on I-95 North on Monday, officials said

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Delays continue on I-95 after a truck hauling oversized equipment smashed into a railroad overpass. The truck hit the bottom of the overpass around 1:30 p.m. on Monday. PennDOT says they are waiting for inspectors from Conrail to take a look at the damage. Delays are expected until the scene is clear.



Traffic will be shut down on part of I-95 northbound for several days after a bridge was struck by a truck carrying a large shipment Monday afternoon, officials said.
PennDOT said that the lane will be closed for bridge repairs after an oversized vehicle carrying a large cylinder hit an overhead bridge on I-95 North in Philadelphia just before the Betsy Ross Bridge around 1:30 p.m. No injuries have been reported.

The northbound lane was originally going to close at 9 p.m., it will now close down starting at 10 p.m. Monday night. Drivers will be redirected to use the Betsy Ross/Aramingo Avenue Interchange (Exit 26), turn right on Aramingo Avenue, and turn right onto Adams Avenue to access the ramp to I-95 North.

The ramp from Castor Avenue to northbound I-95 will also be closed and detoured during construction. Drivers will be directed to use Aramingo Avenue to access the ramp to I-95 North at Adams Avenue.

Electronic message boards on I-76, I-276, I-
476, and other regional transportation arteries in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey are being used to alert motorists about the closure and provide information about alternate routes.
Traffic is currently delayed on I-95 northbound between Exit 22 (I-676) and Exit 26. Drivers in the area should seek alternative routes.

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[bw]

Dang, another Clear Act of War.

 

[tech]

...and the hits just keep on coming!

 

[CTFIREBATTCHIEF]

that bridge approach is to the delaire lift bridge over the delaware river. the new jersey transit atlantic city rail line uses that bridge and is shut down along with freight train service over the delaware river into south jersey until they ascertain if the struck rail bridge can be used

 

[homecanner1]

Is it soup yet?

 

[Publius]

Railroad bridges are usually extra heavy duty and will out last everything around them by a 100 years or more.

 

[Cardinal]

Dang, another Clear Act of War.

Once, is an incident.
Twice, is a coincidence.
Three times is a pattern.

 

[Sacajawea]

Damn, that'll throw a monkeywrench into the cartel's regular shipping pattern.

 

[bw]

Once, is an incident.
Twice, is a coincidence.
Three times is a pattern.

Well better duck and cover, because trucks hit bridges dozens of times a day.

 

[Dobbin]

Once, is an incident.
Twice, is a coincidence.
Three times is a pattern.

And like the Francis Scott Key Bridge this one also a "two-fer" since it obstructs both truck and rail transport for the duration of its outage.

Wasn't it Patton who said something about wars being won primarily by "Logistics?" I.e. control and don't overrun your supply lines?

Nope. General Nathanial Green's quote is more "pithy."

"Logistics is the stuff that if you don't have enough of, the war will not be won as soon as."

Interesting "run-on" sentence. But I put it here as it was said.

Dobbin

 

[Cardinal]

Well better duck and cover, because trucks hit bridges dozens of times a day.

Prove it.

 

[bw]

Prove it.

Youtube has collections of truck-bridge collisions. Browse to your heart's content.

 

[Sherrynboo]

Francis Scott Key bridge now the Betsy Ross bridge?? Is a pattern emerging?

 

[Macgyver]

Francis Scott Key bridge now the Betsy Ross bridge?? Is a pattern emerging?

It has nothing to do with the Betsy Ross bridge.
Except 95 is screwed near the interchangeable with rt 90 that comes from the Betsy.

 

[Cardinal]

Youtube has collections of truck-bridge collisions. Browse to your heart's content.

You said "dozens of times a day"
Step up and prove it.

 

[Dobbin]

Francis Scott Key bridge now the Betsy Ross bridge?? Is a pattern emerging?

More likely to end up as the Francis Scott Key Statue in San Francisco.

Now a celebration of "Monumental Reckoning" Statue of Francis Scott Key (San Francisco) - Wikipedia

Removal and Monumental Reckoning
The statue was toppled by vandals on June 19, 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.[3][4] A year later, on Juneteenth 2021, sculptor Dana King unveiled Monumental Reckoning, comprising 350 sculptures which now encircle the plinth of the empty monument. These 4 feet (1.2 meters) high sculptures represent the first Africans kidnapped from their homeland in Angola and sold into chattel slavery in Virginia in 1619.[5][6] The words "Lift Every Voice" were also installed above the Spreckels Temple of Music in honor of the civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson, author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn often referred to as the "Black national anthem."[7][8]

A picture to show what was done. Note FSK's absence at the center of the plinth.

One thinks of an Anti-Tank Trap.

Imagine if you will a new bridge awarded by government contract, designed by Black Owned Architect Engineering Firms, constructed with DEI constructors, and built using "environmentally acceptable material & technique."

And done "quickly." (Ref. the three elements of production. You get two of three.)

I'm not sure I would wish to cross such a bridge.

Dobbin

 

[Toosh]

I'm much more aware of "disaster capitalism" these days and how certain disasters are intentionally arranged for profit. I now wonder about fires in CA. Maui was a real eye opener. The train wreck in OH was blatant. Now I question severe storms, drought and hurricanes as a result of weather modification.

 

[Sherrynboo]

It has nothing to do with the Betsy Ross bridge.
Except 95 is screwed near the interchangeable with rt 90 that comes from the Betsy.

I must have misread the article, sorry.

 

[Rabbit]

Ships cannot get out of the Baltimore harbor (hope that is remedied by now) and trains can't get past Philly. What's next a major airport
and I85? Trains, Planes, and automobiles. Funny movie by the way.

 

[Sacajawea]

I-70 or 81.

 

[mechanic 217]

Lead up to the Eclipse? the main event? what's next a bank holiday? things that make you go hmmm.

 

[packyderms_wife]

I'm much more aware of "disaster capitalism" these days and how certain disasters are intentionally arranged for profit. I now wonder about fires in CA. Maui was a real eye opener. The train wreck in OH was blatant. Now I question severe storms, drought and hurricanes as a result of weather modification.

You might want to loosen the tin foil hat. Take one part failing infrastructure and one part under qualified truck drivers and you have a recipe for disaster.

The ship bridge accident is proof that we need to shore up our bridges, how much you want to bet that some politicians decided that bridge didn’t need further shoring up of the piers and they pocketed the money?!?

 

[packyderms_wife]

Poor rt 95 just can't catch a break

Portion of I-95 northbound shut down for several days after truck strikes bridge, officials say

Traffic will be shut down on I-95 northbound after a bridge was struck by a truck carrying a large shipment Monday afternoon, officials said. Here are alternative routes drivers can take to avoid delays.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com

Portion of I-95 northbound shut down for several days after truck strikes bridge, officials say​

A truck carrying a large cylinder struck an overhead bridge on I-95 North on Monday, officials said

NBC Universal, Inc.

Delays continue on I-95 after a truck hauling oversized equipment smashed into a railroad overpass. The truck hit the bottom of the overpass around 1:30 p.m. on Monday. PennDOT says they are waiting for inspectors from Conrail to take a look at the damage. Delays are expected until the scene is clear.



Traffic will be shut down on part of I-95 northbound for several days after a bridge was struck by a truck carrying a large shipment Monday afternoon, officials said.
PennDOT said that the lane will be closed for bridge repairs after an oversized vehicle carrying a large cylinder hit an overhead bridge on I-95 North in Philadelphia just before the Betsy Ross Bridge around 1:30 p.m. No injuries have been reported.

The northbound lane was originally going to close at 9 p.m., it will now close down starting at 10 p.m. Monday night. Drivers will be redirected to use the Betsy Ross/Aramingo Avenue Interchange (Exit 26), turn right on Aramingo Avenue, and turn right onto Adams Avenue to access the ramp to I-95 North.

The ramp from Castor Avenue to northbound I-95 will also be closed and detoured during construction. Drivers will be directed to use Aramingo Avenue to access the ramp to I-95 North at Adams Avenue.

Electronic message boards on I-76, I-276, I-
476, and other regional transportation arteries in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey are being used to alert motorists about the closure and provide information about alternate routes.
Traffic is currently delayed on I-95 northbound between Exit 22 (I-676) and Exit 26. Drivers in the area should seek alternative routes.

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I’m not seeing a posted height for the bridge mentioned, or a height of the trailer load.

A few years back, as in about twenty years now, a trucker hit a bridge in Des Moines, IA. Dude destroyed the bridge, lost his job. DOT said his trailer was too tall for the stated height of said bridge.

So lawsuits commenced, and the trucker won. Turns out the bridge in question had sunk something like five plus inches since the last time the DOT had measured the bridge, some thirty years earlier.

There’s been several more incidents like this in Iowa since that accident happened, mostly involving grain trucks.

 

[CTFIREBATTCHIEF]

I am down here in northeast Philadelphia as I write this and what I am hearing is that it was an over wide load that hit the bridge.thankfully that should not affect the main Amtrak northeast corridor line

 

[Macgyver]

I’m not seeing a posted height for the bridge mentioned, or a height of the trailer load.

A few years back, as in about twenty years now, a trucker hit a bridge in Des Moines, IA. Dude destroyed the bridge, lost his job. DOT said his trailer was too tall for the stated height of said bridge.

So lawsuits commenced, and the trucker won. Turns out the bridge in question had sunk something like five plus inches since the last time the DOT had measured the bridge, some thirty years earlier.

There’s been several more incidents like this in Iowa since that accident happened, mostly involving grain trucks.

Rt 195 in NJ had something similar.
Too many layers of asphalt and raised the road.
Even now if you look at the road under the overpasses some are milled down.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Rt 195 in NJ had something similar.
Too many layers of asphalt and raised the road.
Even now if you look at the road under the overpasses some are milled down.

This is what an independent engineering firm concluded, plus there was a lot of snow and ice built up on the sides of the bridge at the time of the accident.

The court then ordered the DOT to go remeasure all of the main bridges in Polk county Iowa!

 

[packyderms_wife]

I am down here in northeast Philadelphia as I write this and what I am hearing is that it was an over wide load that hit the bridge.thankfully that should not affect the main Amtrak northeast corridor line

OP says it was an oversized load. Isn’t there supposed to be a team that maps the route and recheck clearances and the like before the load goes through?

 

[ginnie6]

Years ago there was a really low bridge in the town next to us. Went under it many times. That bridge got hit all the time. Didn’t matter that there were flashing lights if you were too tall…..people still hit it. Including my late father in law in a moving van. Boy he took some ribbing over that one.

 

[CTFIREBATTCHIEF]

OP says it was an oversized load. Isn’t there supposed to be a team that maps the route and recheck clearances and the like before the load goes through?

There is. I have seen pilot cars in front of an over height load with a height probe on the front of it so if the probe hits the bridge they can stop the rig. Not sure how they check over width loads unless maybe they hire whoopie Goldberg to ride a motorcycle in front of the truck?

 

[Toosh]

You might want to loosen the tin foil hat. Take one part failing infrastructure and one part under qualified truck drivers and you have a recipe for disaster.

The ship bridge accident is proof that we need to shore up our bridges, how much you want to bet that some politicians decided that bridge didn’t need further shoring up of the piers and they pocketed the money?!?

You are 100% correct about the tin foil hat - thanks for jerking me back! It's so easy to get sucked in when everything seems like a house of cards. I do know our infrastructure is failing.

Having said that, I'm not convinced the Dali bridge strike was an accident.

 

[Macgyver]

OP says it was an oversized load. Isn’t there supposed to be a team that maps the route and recheck clearances and the like before the load goes through?

The only picture I saw looked like a giant piece of pipe.
There is a lot of construction going on rt 95 currently. I wonder if this was workers moving something to the job site from one of the staging areas.
Could have been an upright column for one of the flyovers. Although everything they have seem to have built so far was poured concrete. Most of the columns are sunk 100'+ in the ground to hit rock, everything above that is just sand.

Vrs an oversize load that technically should have had a permit on all the hoopla that goes with it.

 

[packyderms_wife]

You are 100% correct about the tin foil hat - thanks for jerking me back! It's so easy to get sucked in when everything seems like a house of cards. I do know our infrastructure is failing.

Having said that, I'm not convinced the Dali bridge strike was an accident.

The fact that the state of the electrical system, and engines was ignored and the decision was made to go out to see regardless, makes that accident pure negligence. Someone's heads are going to roll!!!

 

[Macgyver]

OP says it was an oversized load. Isn’t there supposed to be a team that maps the route and recheck clearances and the like before the load goes through?

There is. I have seen pilot cars in front of an over height load with a height probe on the front of it so if the probe hits the bridge they can stop the rig. Not sure how they check over width loads unless maybe they hire whoopie Goldberg to ride a motorcycle in front of the truck?

Found out today from someone I know doing road work in the area.

That load was permitted and it did have a police escort. So I assume someone at PenDot is going to be looking for a new job.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Found out today from someone I know doing road work in the area.

That load was permitted and it did have a police escort. So I assume someone at PenDot is going to be looking for a new job.

Time to measure the height of the bridge and see if it's sunk any, if the load was permitted then in theory there shouldn't have been any issues with the brigdge height.

 

[Greywolf036]

OP says it was an oversized load. Isn’t there supposed to be a team that maps the route and recheck clearances and the like before the load goes through?

Should be on the State ordered PERMITS, along with Provision Sheets.

 

[Delta]

The problem is not bridges settling lower, but in repaving, the surface rises.

One log truck driver hit an overpass at speed (years ago, when I worked in the woods). Moved the overpass sideways a couple inches. Two men put the biggest surviving piece of the redwood log into the back of a pickup. Truck driver found a new line of work.

 

[packyderms_wife]

The problem is not bridges settling lower, but in repaving, the surface rises.

One log truck driver hit an overpass at speed (years ago, when I worked in the woods). Moved the overpass sideways a couple inches. Two men put the biggest surviving piece of the redwood log into the back of a pickup. Truck driver found a new line of work.

The bridge in question in the Des Moines accident had sunk. The bridge has since been replaced. The original bridge was from the early 1900’s.

And yes repaving is a major issue for modern bridges

 

[Ractivist]

And like the Francis Scott Key Bridge this one also a "two-fer" since it obstructs both truck and rail transport for the duration of its outage.

Wasn't it Patton who said something about wars being won primarily by "Logistics?" I.e. control and don't overrun your supply lines?

Nope. General Nathanial Green's quote is more "pithy."

"Logistics is the stuff that if you don't have enough of, the war will not be won as soon as."

Interesting "run-on" sentence. But I put it here as it was said.

Dobbin

Lets not forget

An army runs on it's stomach.
It takes ten men in the rear to keep one man on the line.