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5 January 2025
Did you know that the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began on this day in 1933. It was completed on 19 April 1937. That makes the bridge about 88 years old. I’ve been over and under the bridge, but not in five or six decades. It is golden bridge, across the golden straight, in the golden state. I wonder about the age of such manmade constructions and what it takes to keep them safe. I’d driven across the I35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis several times a few years ago. It was only about 40 years old when it collapsed a few years later.
“Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.” - Martin O’Malley
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Yes, and then there are earthquakes, where the road moves like a snake. I haven’t felt an earthquake since leaving California decades ago. I wouldn’t want to be on a bridge during one of those.
@[email protected] When I was a teen I was in the old Princeton University hangar when that big slab of concrete shook real good. Someone asked “What was that?” and I speculated an earthquake. Though I was from nearby Kendall Park, where one could often feel blasts from the Trap Rock quarry. (There are enormous deposits of diabase in northern and central New Jersey.)
I once slept through a good shake in Ottawa, Ontario. I guess the epicenter was in the Gatineau Hills.