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Freeway bridge collapses

pokemo [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, August 2, 2007
16 years ago3,384 views

http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/6113/artlacroixirptot9.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/01/bridge.collapse.ap/index.html

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=44.97597092998747,+-93.24661016464233&daddr=44.988560716793316,+-93.23657870292664&sll=44.98226,-93.24155&sspn=0.019397,0.057335&ie=UTF8&ll=44.981557,-93.244572&spn=0.038794,0.11467&z=14&om=1&layer=t

Google Maps don't care about it, don't care about the "traffic" layer, don't care about their new feature which is supposed to precise how time it take if you are in the traffic jam.
They were faster to fix when a freeway bridge collided months ago.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I see a gray code (no data available):
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/6661/minneapolisbridgelz5.png

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I see it too, but it was the same in April http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/29/BAGVOPHQU46.DTL and you weren't able to drive, on Google Maps & in reality, on the collapsed bridge.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

And it doesn't seem to work even when the traffic layer is red:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=44.965974537577644,+-93.27861428260803&daddr=44.965564625534235,+-93.25535416603088&sll=44.965565,-93.255354&sspn=0.004851,0.014334&layer=t&ie=UTF8&ll=44.972571,-93.235474&spn=0.077601,0.22934&z=13&om=1

John Honeck [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

My office is a mile south of that bridge. Very scary scene last night and today. The worst news is yet to come as they just started diving at the site to get to the dozens of cars in the water.

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Lat/Long blog has some links to user created content that will help with detours, photos, contact info for local hospitals and meeting point locations.

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/08/minnesota-bridge-collapse.html

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