I 95 Collapses in Philly

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Bad shit this one. Traffic already a mess will be unbearable for a good while.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A portion of Interstate 95 in Northeast Philadelphia collapsed Sunday morning after a large vehicle fire. The fire started under the overpass near the Cottman Avenue exit around 6:30 a.m., police said.

A commercial truck carrying a petroleum-based product was the source of the fire and brought down an entire portion of the northbound lanes, Gov. Josh Shapiro said.

The southbound side of the interstate has also been compromised due to the blaze. Shapiro said it's currently not structurally sound.

More:

I-95 Philadelphia: Large vehicle fire causes roadway collapse near Cottman Avenue exit

A portion of I-95 in Northeast Philadelphia collapsed Sunday morning after a large vehicle fire.
www.cbsnews.com
 

Aerial footage shows collapsed section of I-95 in Philadelphia​

Jun 11, 2023

8:09

A section of northbound I-95 collapsed in Philadelphia after a tanker truck caught fire underneath the highway. Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA) discusses the impact on the community with CNN's Fredricka Whitfield.
 
Damn Search,
Thats gonna be a mess for a long time.
Using route 1 was good travel 70 years ago, but no way can handle 200,000 cars a day through Philly.
 

Newark fire destroys highway - UPI Archives

A fire at an illegal dump beneath an elevated highway Monday melted steel supports and buckled a section of the busy route into the New York metropolitan...
www.upi.com

Happened in NJ back in 1989. It took out I-78 near the airport. It was a fire under the overpass that melted the steel.
 
glockngold said:
Damn Search,
Thats gonna be a mess for a long time.
Using route 1 was good travel 70 years ago, but no way can handle 200,000 cars a day through Philly.
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There are 3 major roads in Philly that parallel 95 but they can't handle any more traffic than they already have. If you know the city there are other roads you can use but they go through already congested residential & business areas. This will be a holy fucking mess for a long time. Hopefully people will remain calm and not get nuts while they are stuck in traffic.
 
andial said:
Any info on the truck driver?
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Not yet. Been wondering if they will find they guy. If they find his remains under the rubble that's one thing. But if he split the scene............that's something else entirely.
 
They will steal lanes from southbound. I-95 will become a 2 lane road in that area, 2 north, 2 south. Not great, but better than total closure.
 
MrLucky said:
They will steal lanes from southbound. I-95 will become a 2 lane road in that area, 2 north, 2 south. Not great, but better than total closure.
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Been busy today so I haven't heard anything about the sothbound lanes yet. But you are right - 2 lanes both ways better than total closure.
 
Looks like they found the driver's remains and the southbound lanes will be replaced.
 
Worked in that area. There were/are plenty of alternate routes. No where near as big a problem as this is.
 
Viking said:
Had a booster hours before crash.
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Probably not that far off.

That's why we're hearing nothing. Died Suddenly at 55 mph while driving a gasoline tanker...his Vaccination Passport properly filled out and in with his corporate badge...and "the truck hit" an abutment, and that's it for what's left of him, the truck, however many died being close to his laden bomb.

We're getting closer to that defining moment, when an airline pilot dies in flight...saw on the news yesterday that an off-duty pilot for a competitor airline had to "assist" when the captain of a Southwest flight from Las Vegas to Ohio, "was incapicated"...eventually there won't BE that kind of help, and a plane is gonna go down.

I suppose the Corn Pop National Security Advisor will blame Russia for it...
 

Temporary road will be built to quickly reopen collapsed stretch of I-95​

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will build a temporary road on top of backfill to patch the gap in Interstate 95 left by the collapse of a bridge in northeast Philadelphia, officials announced Wednesday.

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said the approach is the fastest way to get the highway safely reopened. Recycled glass aggregate will be shipped to the site under police escort to fill the area that had been spanned by a pair of bridges. Permanent bridges will be constructed later.

 

I-95 collapse site aerial view​

Jun 14, 2023


A drone view of I-95 in Northeast Philadelphia, where a bridge collapsed Sunday after a tanker truck carrying gasoline burst into flames beneath it.

Video by Monica Herndon.
 
This made me smile.

‘Classic Philly Man’ Gives News Interview, And People Can’t Get Over His Accent​

This accent is as good as a Wawa gobbler.

Peter McLaughlin, a very Philadelphia man, has gone viral for his interview with local news station Fox 29 after a portion of I-95 collapsed Sunday.

Although the incident was nothing to make light of — and McLaughlin certainly didn’t say anything negative while speaking to the station about waking up to discover the collapse happened in his neighborhood — people who are familiar with the unique Philadelphian emphasis on certain vowels were instantly smitten by his authentic style of speaking.

 
100 million to replace that little section of bridge? Damn, they built an entire bridge from old say brook to old Lyme in Ct for about 40 million and that had to go over the Ct river at one of it's widest points. Old bridge also had to be removed. I cant remember if that was included in the cost.

This little span is maybe 50 or 60 feet so works out to about 2 million a ft. Nice work if you can get it.
 
searcher said:
Detour for 95 blocked.

MSN

www.msn.com
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Uh-oh. Somebody had a Vaxxident.

I'm seeing a lot of that, these days. In fact, just yesterday, on my murdersickle, I nearly got creamed - some Einstein aimed his/her car the wrong way, down a divided city boulevard. Turned left at the exit from a business marked RIGHT TURN ONLY...drove the wrong way a block, the wrong way through a TRAFFIC circle, and then smacked into two cars traveling side-by-side going the proper way.

Speed limit was 35, and these three finally figured out where the brakes were, so not much was broken; but, how far can we be from Peak Stupid?

Same thing here. Stupid on stupid on stupid. ONE BRIDGE closing, gonna foul up the nation's supply lines?
 
All I can think about is climate change and cheesesteaks.
 
Imho, people like that deserve to be drug from their car, and lets just say "have things done to them" (use your imagination) while having to watch as their car is immediately crushed on the spot and hauled off for scrap.
...and no, you may NOT retrieve your "valuables" first.

Then shred their license, declare them to be pedestrians, and if seen driving again in any manner, 10 years hard labor.


Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike drivers such as those? lol
 

Philadelphia I-95 after 6 days: Trucking impacted but chaos seems averted​

Almost a week after the collapse of a section of Interstate 95 north of Philadelphia set up conditions for supply chain chaos, that disruption is in the market, but signs suggest that it is at an overall level less than earlier anticipated.

Work on reconstructing the bridge already has begun, with a live cam showing ongoing progress.

Part of the problem in making a clear declaration of the level of stress on the Northeast supply chain is that the roughly 14,000 trucks that reportedly crossed the overpass in the Tacony section of northeast Philadelphia came in all shapes and sizes. A truck going from Baltimore to New York on I-95 can jump relatively easily to an alternate route that might include Interstate 295 in New Jersey or the largely parallel New Jersey Turnpike.

But an LTL or box truck carrier making a delivery in the area near the collapse doesn’t have that many options to choose from.

Read the rest here:

Philadelphia I-95 after 6 days: Trucking impacted but chaos seems averted

The impact on trucking from the closure of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia does not appear to be reaching the most dire projections.
www.freightwaves.com
 
There's some suspicion the tank-truck driver had a Vaxxident while driving.

So they're in a frantic hurry to "normalize" everything they can, make the sheeple public forget about it or not think about it.
 

Less than two weeks after deadly collapse, I-95 has reopened in Philadelphia​

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Interstate 95 reopened Friday less than two weeks after a deadly collapse in Philadelphia, a quicker-than-expected rebuild to get traffic flowing again on a heavily traveled stretch of the East Coast’s main north-south highway.

Workers put the finishing touches on an interim six-lane roadway that will serve motorists during construction of a permanent bridge. Crews worked around the clock and wrapped up ahead of schedule, allaying fears the critical highway would be closed for many weeks.

Less than two weeks after deadly collapse, I-95 has reopened in Philadelphia

Crews worked around the clock and finished ahead of schedule Friday.
www.pennlive.com
 

I 95 REOPENS 12 DAYS AFTER COLLAPSE​

6:01

This was filmed on June 23, 2023. The Captain shows you what it was like around I 95 when it reopens after 12 days of construction
 
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