I'm not sure. I think it does follow I-35, at least it does through Texas, but I'm not sure how far north it goes or how closely it follows the original road.
My point was that EdCondom's post was a way to conduct a cheap attack on the truthers without going so far as to address their argument - basically something at the level of a Republican smear. I don't follow the truther stuff closely and it was even offensive to me.
Isn't there a "4 football wide" NAU SUPER HIGHWAY COMING THROUGH THERE SHORTLY?
Yes.
I noted a couple of remarks on the coverage this morning. Paraphrasing:
1) One said, I heard a BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. As we were falling, a boom.
2) One of the police officials giving the organizational update said, we are not sure what caused the bridge to come down. We are treating this as a crime scene, as well as a recovery, but it will be slow and deliberate, to collect forensic data.
On a side note, some guy on MSNBC (Craig Crawford?) said, that the federal officials aren't the only ones to blame... the taxpayers themselves rather spend money to build a ball park, then to fix the bridge.
You know, in this case, I find that hard to believe. Rather have a ballpark, sure, but knowing the bridge is a timebomb, and they might just be on it when it goes......... please... voters, taxpayers, expect that infrastructure is a known priority, and they pay for it's maintenance already.
I just heard Norm Coleman mention he was mayor on 9/11, and we need to make sure that all of America's bridges are repaired.
Sniff. Smell that rat? I suspect 9/11 will be the cover to get that beast built. Remember a little while back when that truck blew up on some bridge in the San Francisco area (or Oakland). I don't remember a big stink about America's bridge integrity being lifted to such notice. This bridge, is way more importante'.
The TSA is going to take all the bridge rubble and try to rebuild it somewhere, to see if they can determine what caused the failure.
A person commented on CNN (I think it was a structural engineer), that he can not imagine, HOW, two ends of the bridge came down at the same time.
There was some jackhammer work on one side of the river, that might have contributed to 'vibrations', but, an investigation was needed to determine if the jackhammer work was specifically around, or close to, critical connectors (? bridge talk) that may have caused/contributed a span failure.