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The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (officially known as Bridge 9340) was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River one-half mile (875 m) downstream from the Saint Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The bridge opened in 1967 and was Minnesota's third busiest, [4] [5 ...
- 456 ft (139 m)
- 1,907 ft (581.3 m)
- November 1967
- Mississippi River
By using the design-build method for the I-35W bridge replacement project, MnDOT was able to deliver the project sooner. Some of the benefits of the design-build process are: Shortened completion time by overlapping design and construction. Construction can begin before all design details are final. Greater innovation and flexibility in ...
Jul 30, 2017 · July 30, 2017 / 12:45 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ten years ago Tuesday, a bridge carrying a busy stretch of freeway collapsed without warning into the Mississippi River in ...
Collapse of I-35W Highway Bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 1, 2007. Highway Accident Report NTSB/HAR-08/03. Washington, DC. Abstract: About 6:05 p.m. central daylight time on Wednesday, August 1, 2007, the eight-lane, 1,907-foot-long I-35W highway bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, experienced
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View of the collapsed I-35W bridge (Bridge 9340) on August 1, 2007. Photograph by Heather Munro. The I-35W (Interstate 35 West) bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis opened to traffic in 1967. Thousands of vehicles drove across it every day, but no one imagined that a mistake in the bridge’s design, made over forty years prior ...
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Aug 1, 2017 · Morry Gash/AP. Ten years ago, the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis collapsed, sending cars, trucks and even a school bus that were crawling over it in ...
Nov 23, 2009 · The I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed suddenly on August 1, 2007. This note briefly summarizes an analysis based on original design drawings, an investigation of material evidence provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and a full-scale load rating of the bridge superstructure.
