12 Montreal structures considered critical due to corrosion

Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay said on Wednesday that 12 bridges, tunnels and overpasses in the city identified by engineers as being in critical condition. “We have the reports from our engineers that these structures are safe,” Tremblay told reporters at city hall, where technical details on 35 structures were made public. “From the moment one [...]

Plymouth Avenue bridge closed until next year

There’s good news and bad news for traffic users of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge. The good news is that city officials appear to have found the money needed to repair the bridge. The bad news is that it will probably be a year or more before the bridge is open to motor vehicle traffic. Minneapolis [...]

Hunter Mill Road bridge to be replaced

The bridge carrying Hunter Mill Road over Difficult Run will be replaced with a temporary structure this month after a regular inspection found severe corrosion in the bridge beams. The corrosion cannot be repaired, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. A temporary truss bridge will be installed this month, requiring some lane closures on [...]

Bridge inspection in Bristol, Massachusetts revealed ‘severe’ corrosion

Bristol, MA — The inspection that led the state to drop the Brightman Street Bridge weight limit to 3 tons noted “severe” deficiencies in multiple parts of the bridge, including some that were said to require action as soon as possible. Five months after the inspection, the Department of Transportation hasn’t made the repairs because [...]

Memorial Bridge coatings job to cost $12 million

AUGUSTA – Memorial Bridge is due for a pricey paint job, perhaps as early as this fall. Painting the nearly 2,100-foot-long, 48-foot-wide bridge is expected to cost about $12 million. By comparison, the bridge was built in 1949 at a cost of $1.2 million. Officials attribute the high cost of repainting to the bridge’s size [...]

Iowa bridges third-worst in the nation

At first glance, the two-lane bridge over Wapsinonoc Creek seems up-to-date. But a closer inspection reveals rusted bolts, graffiti, and crooked beams. More than 4,000 cars travel across it each day, and it has not been renovated since 1956. The bridge, located in Muscatine County, is one of 5,000 bridges in Iowa classified as structurally [...]

Spring River bridge to be replaced due to corrosion

If the deck on the Missouri Highway 96 bridge over the Spring River near Kellogg Lake Park were rated any worse, the bridge would have to be closed. According to Jerry Davis, a transportation project manager for the Missouri Department of Transportation, the deck of the Highway 96 bridge that crosses Spring River received a [...]

Aging U.S. 2 trestle gets needed corrosion repairs

With thousands of vehicle trips daily, U.S. 2 gets needed repairs EVERETT (WA) — Concrete is falling off in chunks, rebar is rusting and thousands of people drive over the westbound U.S. 2 trestle every day. While the girders on the trestle’s underbelly have been slowly deteriorating for more than 20 years, state transportation officials [...]

Gardiner structurally sound, experts say, after chunk smashes onto road

TORONTO: City crews will be examining sections of the Gardiner Expressway after a 4.5-kilogram chunk of concrete fell onto Lake Shore Blvd. W. earlier this week, hitting a guardrail and ricocheting into the road. The slab, about four centimetres thick and over a meter long, was sloughed off the bottom of the elevated section, its [...]

Engineers use Route 23 bridge in Wayne to study corrosion

WAYNE – An international team of engineers and researchers, each dressed in a yellow vest and hard hat, on Tuesday poked and prodded – so to speak – at a steel string bridge, looking for signs of deterioration & corrosion. International engineers conduct a study of highway bridge deterioration using a bridge on Route. 23 in [...]