Tag: bridge closure

Roadbuilding

After year of rehab work, ‘honeycombing’ closes down Kipapa Bridge in Hawaii

After HDOT found defects in one of the bridge supports of Kipapa Steam Bridge, it has been closed for emergency repair work. Learn more on Equipment World.

August 27, 2018

Roadbuilding

Rainbow Bridge in Nova Scotia closed due to truss span failure

The Rainbow Bridge on Highway 2 outside of Amherst, Nova Scotia, was closed to traffic on December 8, after two bottom chord members on the truss span failed, causing the structure to sag, the Amherst News Citizen-Record/Cumberland News Now reports. The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal discovered the failure and immediately closed the bridge […]

December 27, 2017

Roadbuilding

Florida bridge opens after 3 years of construction

After three years of construction and a weekend of being closed for re-striping, Florida’s new Flagler Memorial Bridge between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach opened one lane in each direction on Monday, CBS12.com reports. The project cost taxpayers approximately $105 million dollars. Some businesses were negatively impacted during the years of construction, and some eventually closed, but for […]

December 22, 2016

Roadbuilding

South Carolina DOT worker killed after getting swept away by floodwaters

A South Carolina road worker died Sunday after floodwater overturned his truck and swept it away during the powerful storm flooding the state. According to the Greenville News, Timothy Wayne Gibson was working in Columbia when the flow of the floodwater overcame the South Carolina Department of Transportation worker’s truck. The rushing water was powerful enough to flip […]

October 6, 2015

Roadbuilding

‘Knee-high’ swarm of mayflies causes bridge in Iowa to close

It took snow plows to clear an Iowa bridge of the unending swarm of mayflies that covered and eventually closed the bridge on July 18. Sabula Police Reserve Officer Stephen Thayer told WQAD that the bugs were piled knee-high in front of cars trying to pass by during the night. The plague-like swarm even caused two […]

July 27, 2015