It was built in 1940 back then not as much traffic. Main people were farmers. Before that they had barges that would move people to one side and another they still have to this day . Faries that push the barges loaded with cars trucks semi cattle across. When I grew up from Led better to Smithland about 20 houses main road there were just farms....r
My brother worked for wpsd in 2009 he called me in the middle of the day and told me that he had worked on a story about that bridge,he told me that it was recently inspected and the score was given to the highway department or whatever. The score given to a bridge is between 1 to 100. That Bridge that was driven on for years after that scored a 3.
I worked for a contractor 40 years ago resurfacing this bridge. It was in great shape back then. I didn't realize how bad this was with the erosion stressing the structure like this. Definitely the bridge had to come down before something very serious happened. Looks like it wasn't torn down any too soon. Looks like it should have been addressed sooner.
I remember driving quads and dirtbikes under this bridge years before it was closed. You could literally see cars pass over from underneath from all the holes in the concrete... There was a "catwalk" with a ladder that was hanging off and we would get our crazy friends to climb up it. That bridge caused a lot of deaths from car crashes to people hitting pedestrians and people jumping off.
I remember a few wrecks but not deaths I don't know of anyone who jumped but have not lived there in years not since 1981. Two girls I went to high school was speeding and ran into back of semi trailer got hurt bad. R
Out here in Everett, Wash we had a small train bridge on Broadway that looked like part of the road. But underneath it , the bridge that was over 100 yrs. Old was falling apart. The road was soon closed and repaired but if it was just ignored, it might have caved in.The train tracks run right under it.
The greatest vlog yet. The narrator is great, the content is great, thanks for posting. And no stupid, irritating music, just the narrator and the humming of that wasp flying with a GoPro on its back. Seriously glad you didn’t have some irritating music that distracts from the video.
@@ckennedy109637 Is that sarcasm, or is this a joke how the contractors inflate the price of their services when they are hired to work for the government? A video drone service usually costs around $150 per hour and a simplisafe alarm package is around $300 with a $15 monthly fee.
sorry to be off topic but does any of you know a method to log back into an Instagram account? I somehow forgot the account password. I would love any help you can offer me!
@Coen Louie Thanks for your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm trying it out atm. I see it takes a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Has anyone else noticed that the I-24 Bridge near Paducah appears to be leaning? I drove across it Aug 8th and the suspension section on the KY side was noticeably leaning to the west.
In the mid-70's, driving from CO to NC, I crossed the two US68 bridges across the Land Between the Lakes, which were pretty much identical to the one in this video. At night, of course. All of us in the car still have wear marks on our teeth from meeting the 18-wheelers on those crossings. The bridges were evidently replaced over the last 10 years, but you can still see them on Google Maps Street View (as of August 2021).
hahahaha yeah mothman! where were you on that one? that's your whole deal, bridge warning duty. Mothman read the comment section. mothman: "Oops, I had a wicked hangover that night before, too many highballs and hookers, my bad"
All the Amateur Engineers keep saying what a poor design. The bridge itself didn't collapse, the approach did. That collapsed because the ground below it shifted. It stood without issue for 75 years, I don't think the engineering was that bad. For the record, the pier that shifted looked to have been replaced once already. If the original builders are guilty of anything it would be locating the bridge where they did.
Not claiming to be an amateur engineer... Just a poor old farm boy who's busted a few "engineered" bridges.... One would think that the pilings should be set in bedrock... Perhaps there is no bedrock there?? If they are in bedrock, they would have to have broken by the landslide..... Whatever that case, interesting! BTW, I'm with you, doesn't matter what it's about, always too many "engineers" that know it all...
Under the cement you can see all the rust The natural elements cause the rust which in turn degrades the cement and your absolutely right about the pier structure don't appear to have been driven at the correct depth.
Judging from the amount of rust on the bridge, it was due for replacement anyways. However, that the bridge piers were displaced by a landslide suggests that the piers didn't have solid footings. They should have been sitting on bedrock or pilings.
People would stop driving over bridges if they knew how many had bad sufficiency ratings. Well I take that back... people are stupid and would still cross them. I have seen people drive around dirt piles on roads blocking traffic from crossing a bridge...
Depends on when the bridge was built and where it was built also arguably there are bridges in MUCH worse shape than the bridge here but still quite safe
Same here.2000-03 I was driving across it twice daily with mentally & physically handicapped passengers. Nothing good would have happened in an emergency with them onboard.
@@HighFiveGhost50 No, they would have all been panicking & I would have to make very hard choices for who got out. I'd be going down with the bus trying to get them all out safely.
I used to drive across it all the time just before they closed it. For years I held my breath going across but it wouldn't have done any good. I knew it was unsafe but I was not fully aware of how unsafe it was. The crazy thing is that most of the major routes in this area have bridges that are in the same shape.
As a resident from Livingston county...used to travel this bridge everyday when I was younger to get to walmart to shop. It was a scary bridge to begin with...the one in Smithland is even worse....before too long it will do the same thing
When you live out in the sticks you're damn happy to have one. The only other options are overpriced little mom & pop stores that don't carry much and if they can get what you need, they can have it for you in a couple of weeks. Yeah, there's Amazon too but some things you need that day or want yesterday. We just got a Walmart here in our county in Southern Indiana last year. Before that the largest store in the whole county was Ace Hardware. If you needed anything else you drove 30 miles to the Clarksville IN / Louisville KY area.
We were still driving on that in July 2013. I live 8 miles past and the explosions during demolition were loud. Amazing that about 15 miles past is another bridge about as bad still in use spanning the Cumberland River.
Most of those bridges are nearly a century old, and some have passed that mark. Most were 20 feet wide (some 18) and were not designed to carry the loads they did in later years. Though the support steel was a bit rotted, the reason for this failure was the collapse of the bridge abutment. They all need replacing; even the I-24 bridge is insufficient.
I saw the demolition of the bridge on the news before hearing it. I only live 3 miles away. I was pretty cool. I was late to class that day because I wanted to watch it.
@KyTransCenter " .... the poor state of the bridge's structural integrity disallowed bridge inspectors and contractors to safely inspect the bridge for fear of collapse" Okay, this should be good .......If you fear its imminent collapse, just what *is* it that you are inspecting it for??!!
She actually caused it to collapse with few words spoken. Her sister was using a line trimmer at the same time...and uh...so ugh. Get her name and identification immediately. She might just cause a bridge to go down near you and me.
Good fortune scoring a doco gig. Usually that much vocal fry is selected for ads promoting Indian casinos and Fast Casual dining chains that serve alcohol.
1:49 I know I'm picking nits but the pier didn't rotate towards the abutment. The footing moved away from the abutment. In a formal engineering report this would make a difference, in a TH-cam video, well, it should still be indicated correctly but doesn't make a big difference.
Nine months was the time between the opening of the new bridge and the start of the collapse of the old bridge. Considering that the bridge had stood sound for eighty-two years I wouldn't consider nine months to be very long. In fact I'd *almost* consider it a pants-wetting short amount of time. Almost.
Those warned listened in this situation and the bridge claimed no lives. However 15 December 1967, in Point Plesant, West Virginia, United States of America, the Silver Bridge collapsed after much warning was given to those that would listen. 46 died in the frigid waters, in their cars filled with Christmas presents. 47 went in into water that cold night. The cold claimed many. Wake up number 47.
Looks like a bridge I’d see in a nightmare that would end up collapsing with me on it or the road deck giving way to where I can see the support beams underneath 😳 Freaky to see a bridge in real life that would typically appear in a nightmare glad it was closed before there were fatalities
Am I seeing sparks and fire at 04:26? If so, what would cause that (as this occurred before the planned demolition)? EDIT: from reading other comments, I learn that it was possible that live power lines were carried by this bridge and that's what sparked when the bridge collapsed.
This was fascinating footage and I appreciated the commentary that went along with it, but the ads were infuriating. I am giving you a thumbs up because of the interest but was tempted to give a thumbs down because of the stupid ads.
@@johnmccallum8512 Thanks for the advice, because it wasn't just this one (1 midsentence) but its happened on several review channels as well... As many as 3 interrupting at odd times in a 12-13 minute video. It's overkill. Now I know who to gripe to.
In some states is it illegal to fly drones around a road or Bridge structures or buildings that's why they had to use a new name to be official and not break the law
@@emiliogreenwood8190 ok, so if I were to rename theft to "Apple pie" I could get away with it in some states? That's really weird, but I think I get it. 😳
Technically its not a drone.The definition of a drone is a ariel object that flys by itself to and from an area.But its flown by a human pilot while in the area.Look it up
@@lawrencecarpenter638 After doing a little looking around, I've found that the manufacturers are calling their products "drones" and an accepted dictionary definition of a drone is "a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft or small flying device", aka an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
I drove over this bridge since I was 7years old with mom and dad driving. I used for until I was 21 my sis and other familiy member used it until it was destroyed same with the smithland river bridge needs to be replaced also. Not safe for bus drivers with kids on board.... R from ky.
These bridges we cross every day are not meant to last forever. We need to attend to our infrastructure instead of funding the rich through our “wars”.
I used to live in Paducah and I rode across this bridge a few times growing up. Barge traffic was always hitting the bridge and it was built if I remember correctly in the late 1920s. It was known back in 2000 that the Bridge needed to be replacedand they ask for bids and proposals for a replacement bridgebut going to newbridge takes time especially when you got saved up money during the middle of a recession
doughesson The democratic governor can't do much if the republican senators give all the tax money to bailing out corporations instead of sending it home to make repairs.
It was an old bridge that wasn't safe, so they built a new one. No one got hurt, the collapse was expected, so there's nothing to blame anyone for. A bridge replaced in a timely manner is what's supposed to happen. Can't believe I'm defending McConnnell as I can't stand him and I'm not too pleased with KY for inflicting him on the rest of us, but fair is fair.
Should her voice annoy you, you can avoid this annoyance by simply turning your volume to 0 or simply going on to another video. I applaud this young lady for her efforts at narrating this interestingly informative video! Well Done!!
This is the bridge where millions where given to fix and less then a year it j7st got a magic hole in the middle of it. We need to deep dive into the materials being used around are country before anymore accidents
This is the weirdest simpli-safe ad I have ever seen
Bridge: I've fallen and I can't get up.
Hahaha. Hilarious
Damn good thing they caught it before people got killed
Let’s be honest, that bridge was a pile of shit way before the landslide happened.
I agree, it looked like it was way past it's shelf life long before the sliding
@@danecrawford2658 I miss it tho. I remember the first time driving across it by myself when I was 16 and was scared shitless...
Typical US - we don't take care of our infrastructure.
What do you expect from Kentucky? 🐷
It was built in 1940 back then not as much traffic. Main people were farmers. Before that they had barges that would move people to one side and another they still have to this day . Faries that push the barges loaded with cars trucks semi cattle across. When I grew up from Led better to Smithland about 20 houses main road there were just farms....r
And here I thought SimplySafe was just a home security system. Apparently its also a "we will tell you when your bridge collapses" system as well.
My brother worked for wpsd in 2009 he called me in the middle of the day and told me that he had worked on a story about that bridge,he told me that it was recently inspected and the score was given to the highway department or whatever. The score given to a bridge is between 1 to 100. That Bridge that was driven on for years after that scored a 3.
Omg can't believe they didn't even close the bridge with score of 3
I worked for a contractor 40 years ago resurfacing this bridge. It was in great shape back then. I didn't realize how bad this was with the erosion stressing the structure like this. Definitely the bridge had to come down before something very serious happened. Looks like it wasn't torn down any too soon. Looks like it should have been addressed sooner.
I remember driving quads and dirtbikes under this bridge years before it was closed. You could literally see cars pass over from underneath from all the holes in the concrete... There was a "catwalk" with a ladder that was hanging off and we would get our crazy friends to climb up it. That bridge caused a lot of deaths from car crashes to people hitting pedestrians and people jumping off.
I remember a few wrecks but not deaths I don't know of anyone who jumped but have not lived there in years not since 1981. Two girls I went to high school was speeding and ran into back of semi trailer got hurt bad. R
Don't see anything wrong, tell the public they can go ahead and use it.
Out here in Everett, Wash we had a small train bridge on Broadway that looked like part of the road. But underneath it , the bridge that was over 100 yrs. Old was falling apart. The road was soon closed and repaired but if it was just ignored, it might have caved in.The train tracks run right under it.
The greatest vlog yet. The narrator is great, the content is great, thanks for posting. And no stupid, irritating music, just the narrator and the humming of that wasp flying with a GoPro on its back. Seriously glad you didn’t have some irritating music that distracts from the video.
Someone was using their noodle! Use a drone and an inexpensive home alarm for sensors. Pretty cool!
Yeah but that drone prob cost taxpayers 10,000 dollars and the alarm system was another 100,000 dollars p obably
@@ckennedy109637 Is that sarcasm, or is this a joke how the contractors inflate the price of their services when they are hired to work for the government? A video drone service usually costs around $150 per hour and a simplisafe alarm package is around $300 with a $15 monthly fee.
I remember driving across this bridge several times over the years. I thought it was going to collapse even back then.
Why did you think that?
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I somehow forgot the account password. I would love any help you can offer me!
@Westley Ben Instablaster ;)
@Coen Louie Thanks for your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm trying it out atm.
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Structural Engineering is so complex but yet one of the most interesting fields of study just for situations like this.
Has anyone else noticed that the I-24 Bridge near Paducah appears to be leaning?
I drove across it Aug 8th and the suspension section on the KY side was noticeably leaning to the west.
Dude…call DOT!
@@TheGuitologist ... I notified the IDOT but the woman I spoke to seemed very doubtful.
@@dougn2350 should have called KDOT too
@@dougn2350 as I've said continually IDOT it's only missing one I
@@garysprandel1817 ☺😀😁😂
In the mid-70's, driving from CO to NC, I crossed the two US68 bridges across the Land Between the Lakes, which were pretty much identical to the one in this video. At night, of course. All of us in the car still have wear marks on our teeth from meeting the 18-wheelers on those crossings. The bridges were evidently replaced over the last 10 years, but you can still see them on Google Maps Street View (as of August 2021).
Looking at modern drones, the one used in 2014 was basically a toy.
The Mothman never warned us about this bridge
That's because he doesn't exist, those photographs were some dude in a custome
@@angel-nv7jk you are false
hahahaha yeah mothman! where were you on that one? that's your whole deal, bridge warning duty. Mothman read the comment section.
mothman: "Oops, I had a wicked hangover that night before, too many highballs and hookers, my bad"
All the Amateur Engineers keep saying what a poor design. The bridge itself didn't collapse, the approach did. That collapsed because the ground below it shifted. It stood without issue for 75 years, I don't think the engineering was that bad. For the record, the pier that shifted looked to have been replaced once already. If the original builders are guilty of anything it would be locating the bridge where they did.
Not claiming to be an amateur engineer... Just a poor old farm boy who's busted a few "engineered" bridges....
One would think that the pilings should be set in bedrock... Perhaps there is no bedrock there?? If they are in bedrock, they would have to have broken by the landslide.....
Whatever that case, interesting!
BTW, I'm with you, doesn't matter what it's about, always too many "engineers" that know it all...
Under the cement you can see all the rust
The natural elements cause the rust which in turn degrades the cement and your absolutely right about the pier structure don't appear to have been driven at the correct depth.
Good thing it didn't matter because it had already been closed for a while
An honest geological survey and some soil assessments would have been a good start. But yes, on the money @@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin
@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin no footing no bridge lol
They literally completed the new bridge just in time.
Judging from the amount of rust on the bridge, it was due for replacement anyways.
However, that the bridge piers were displaced by a landslide suggests that the piers didn't have solid footings. They should have been sitting on bedrock or pilings.
People would stop driving over bridges if they knew how many had bad sufficiency ratings. Well I take that back... people are stupid and would still cross them. I have seen people drive around dirt piles on roads blocking traffic from crossing a bridge...
Depends on when the bridge was built and where it was built also arguably there are bridges in MUCH worse shape than the bridge here but still quite safe
Thank you for bringing us this excellent and informative video, it is much appreciated by the people.
The girl narrating this has a very calm and reassuring voice..
Kinda scary when I think about how many times I've crossed that very bridge.
Same here.2000-03 I was driving across it twice daily with mentally & physically handicapped passengers.
Nothing good would have happened in an emergency with them onboard.
I had driven over it a couple of times, long before this collapse happened. It didn’t seem safe, even back then.
I've never driven over it and it was still scary!!! lol
@@doughesson yeah if they would have escaped, they would have brought death and destruction to the country side.
@@HighFiveGhost50 No, they would have all been panicking & I would have to make very hard choices for who got out.
I'd be going down with the bus trying to get them all out safely.
And the landslide brought it down.
I used to drive across it all the time just before they closed it. For years I held my breath going across but it wouldn't have done any good. I knew it was unsafe but I was not fully aware of how unsafe it was. The crazy thing is that most of the major routes in this area have bridges that are in the same shape.
Did Tara Reed do the voice over for this?
As a resident from Livingston county...used to travel this bridge everyday when I was younger to get to walmart to shop. It was a scary bridge to begin with...the one in Smithland is even worse....before too long it will do the same thing
You went to shop at Walmart every day? :-/
Shane Ticknor
shopping at wal-mart sounds scary to me😲
Doesn't everybody in Koontucky?
When you live out in the sticks you're damn happy to have one. The only other options are overpriced little mom & pop stores that don't carry much and if they can get what you need, they can have it for you in a couple of weeks. Yeah, there's Amazon too but some things you need that day or want yesterday. We just got a Walmart here in our county in Southern Indiana last year. Before that the largest store in the whole county was Ace Hardware. If you needed anything else you drove 30 miles to the Clarksville IN / Louisville KY area.
@@Rebel9668 my county in Virginia has two Walmarts and my town is smack in between both of them.
We were still driving on that in July 2013. I live 8 miles past and the explosions during demolition were loud. Amazing that about 15 miles past is another bridge about as bad still in use spanning the Cumberland River.
What bridge?
@@Luna312ful
The bridge spanning the Cumberland is the one still in use
@@Luna312ful
The bridge you are viewing in the video is gone
@@ddriskill1 i just looked it up, scary stuff. But do you know the Brookport bridge?
Yes I do.
It is still used
It’s hard to ride a motorcycle across
The brookport bridge has metal grids as the roadway instead of concrete and pavement
This is the state of American infrastructure
American infrastructure be like :
How many other bridges are in the same or worse condition?
Girl needs to stop smoking.
Most of those bridges are nearly a century old, and some have passed that mark. Most were 20 feet wide (some 18) and were not designed to carry the loads they did in later years. Though the support steel was a bit rotted, the reason for this failure was the collapse of the bridge abutment. They all need replacing; even the I-24 bridge is insufficient.
I saw the demolition of the bridge on the news before hearing it. I only live 3 miles away. I was pretty cool. I was late to class that day because I wanted to watch it.
Wow I was born in Paducah. I crossed this bridge a many times
That is one loud mosquito!
Welcome to KY.
Or a bee 🐝
@KyTransCenter
" .... the poor state of the bridge's structural integrity disallowed bridge inspectors and contractors to safely inspect the bridge for fear of collapse"
Okay, this should be good .......If you fear its imminent collapse, just what *is* it that you are inspecting it for??!!
They should have closed it as soon as they got too scairt to inspect it themselves.
I remember this bridge. I work at the company that built its replacement
The camera was strapped to the world's largest bumblebee
The narratrix recorded this after a sleepless night filled with smoking unfiltered Chesterfields.
She actually caused it to collapse with few words spoken. Her sister was using a line trimmer at the same time...and uh...so ugh.
Get her name and identification immediately. She might just cause a bridge to go down near you and me.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good fortune scoring a doco gig. Usually that much vocal fry is selected for ads promoting Indian casinos and Fast Casual dining chains that serve alcohol.
Narratrix. Now there's a quaint old pedantic word!
@rah62phx
My guess is they were Pall Mall's.
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1:49 I know I'm picking nits but the pier didn't rotate towards the abutment. The footing moved away from the abutment. In a formal engineering report this would make a difference, in a TH-cam video, well, it should still be indicated correctly but doesn't make a big difference.
Wow, I crossed this bridge so many times before then
Not that any of this mattered anyway. The new bridge was long open before this collapse.
Nine months was the time between the opening of the new bridge and the start of the collapse of the old bridge. Considering that the bridge had stood sound for eighty-two years I wouldn't consider nine months to be very long. In fact I'd *almost* consider it a pants-wetting short amount of time. Almost.
@@blazerocker1734
Exactly
That makes this a pretty amazing story that mattered a lot
It looked like that bridge should’ve came down along time ago. was it closed before the land slide?
Great editing and well documented event...
What creepy sounding early drone.
Good use of drone, image processing and cell tech. Is anyone going to publish a paper on how the assessment and monitoring was done?
Those warned listened in this situation and the bridge claimed no lives. However 15 December 1967, in Point Plesant, West Virginia, United States of America, the Silver Bridge collapsed after much warning was given to those that would listen. 46 died in the frigid waters, in their cars filled with Christmas presents. 47 went in into water that cold night. The cold claimed many.
Wake up number 47.
The mothman did it
@@freddecat5484 The Mothman is a harbenger of disaster, not the source of disaster. Those that will listen will survive the disasters.
It is NOT a land slide, it is called erosion. Erosion will always be an issue when building on or near a river.
I went across that old bridge a lot of times when I trucked
Tokyo ROSE
Looks like a bridge I’d see in a nightmare that would end up collapsing with me on it or the road deck giving way to where I can see the support beams underneath 😳
Freaky to see a bridge in real life that would typically appear in a nightmare glad it was closed before there were fatalities
Drone thought balloon: "That looks sketchy, hope I don't have to land on this thing!"
Am I seeing sparks and fire at 04:26? If so, what would cause that (as this occurred before the planned demolition)?
EDIT: from reading other comments, I learn that it was possible that live power lines were carried by this bridge and that's what sparked when the bridge collapsed.
I think it’s for the navigation lights that were on the bridge.
I live only 10 mins away form
Here and remember this
That uas thingy literally sounds like someone humming the sound effects!!😂😅😁Edit: WOOOO WOO WOOOOOO!💨
I never noticed everyone always mutes drone footage.
This was fascinating footage and I appreciated the commentary that went along with it, but the ads were infuriating. I am giving you a thumbs up because of the interest but was tempted to give a thumbs down because of the stupid ads.
Holly Rockwell download add blocker or buy RED, every good channel has adds, get used to it
Send your complaint to Google they are the people who decide where to put the ads.
I don't see any ads.
@@johnmccallum8512 Thanks for the advice, because it wasn't just this one (1 midsentence) but its happened on several review channels as well... As many as 3 interrupting at odd times in a 12-13 minute video. It's overkill. Now I know who to gripe to.
"Unmanned aerial system or UAS"
Why invent complicated names for things? It's a *drone* period.
In some states is it illegal to fly drones around a road or Bridge structures or buildings that's why they had to use a new name to be official and not break the law
@@emiliogreenwood8190 ok, so if I were to rename theft to "Apple pie" I could get away with it in some states?
That's really weird, but I think I get it. 😳
We deal with anyone that's in politics and make these rules who knows
UAS can be be applied to many different systems. Fixed wing, helicopter, lighter than air, rocket propelled, etc.
@@larryscott3982 So we could call a 60 foot mast broadcasting a radio signal… 'Unmanned aerial system'. So very ambiguous and somewhat meaningless.
Since the collapse is being caused by ground subsidence then it obviously has nothing to do with it's design
Other than it was built in the wrong place.
It looked old anyways
The piers should have been sitting on bedrock so they would never sink
Interesting upload.
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏼
Those piers look pretty lightweight for the girders they were supporting.
That's probably why they failed
Wow, I hope, bu now, her sore throat has cleared up and her voice is back to normal.
BTW, mute the sound from the quadcopter's camera...
tom7601 mute the sound from the narrators mike.
Interesting use of a home security system.
Foundation of the land support piers obviously not engineered/constructed properly.
Samuel T I’m sure the standards were different back when it was built
@@abutts02
No doubt. Bridge may have been outside its "rated life" anyway. They only last so long, no matter what...
The new Ledbetter bridge is great. It's green and super wide!!
Wow, the bridge sit on such small pressure points, it a wonder it took a landslide to ruin it.
Question: Why did they only demolish the left side of the bridge? Do the others come down later?
Grafton Hale they were deliberately brought down from left to right and then the middle.
Taking all of them down at once would have halted barge traffic for several weeks. One at a time keeps some of the navigation channel open.
"If the main structure collapses barge traffic could be disrupted."
Could be?
It doesn't look like the bridge was constructed to very high standards to begin with.
Cheapotuckio
Well considering it was built in 1929 I would say it stood up pretty well. I drove over that bridge thousands of times growing up.
edstud1 ya, some 2.5" cables X shaped on all the piers would have been a plus.... But nooooo
Its in Kentucky .
Russell Gerdes the only thing I can predict is hover dam should last another 500 years....
The prediction that the approach collapsing would bring down the main trusses turned out to be wrong
From what I see it has already collapsed to the point of demolition needed
If a bridge falls in the middle of the woods at night does it make a sound?
Yes
Mothman was laying down on the job that day...
Good ol Padukah. I use to watch their News as a Student at the Southern Illinois University. They even use to smoke on camera.
Everybody used to smoke on camera. That's when they used to report actual news. They are junk now
Could be a Phantom 2 with a GO Pro strapped to it.
"I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag"
Oh this is a great example of Kentucky's DOT infrequent highway bridges inspection. Very poor example of the greed in the their state.
How old is the bridge ?
It was built in 1929. It had been closed for a while when this happened. The new bridge was already built
Unmanned Aerial System.
DRONE. It's called a drone.
I was actually about to say same thing. So much Easier to say too. Drone.
Technically its not a drone.The definition of a drone is a ariel object that flys by itself to and from an area.But its flown by a human pilot while in the area.Look it up
@@lawrencecarpenter638 So then all these drones that people use to produce awesome videos everywhere aren't really drones then?
@@whiteknightcat NO.Those people are flying nothing more than quad copters.
@@lawrencecarpenter638 After doing a little looking around, I've found that the manufacturers are calling their products "drones" and an accepted dictionary definition of a drone is "a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft or small flying device", aka an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
I drove over this bridge since I was 7years old with mom and dad driving. I used for until I was 21 my sis and other familiy member used it until it was destroyed same with the smithland river bridge needs to be replaced also. Not safe for bus drivers with kids on board.... R from ky.
I just watched a drone video of the Smithland bridge where it looks like they're building a new bridge next to it.
Just call it a drone
“drone” = $500
“Unmanned Aerial System” = $25,000
These bridges we cross every day are not meant to last forever. We need to attend to our infrastructure instead of funding the rich through our “wars”.
HUH?
So sad. Plenty of time to build temporary cribs under the approach spans & repour supports but let's just watch it fall down.
This is a clear, concise and informative documentary
I used to live in Paducah and I rode across this bridge a few times growing up. Barge traffic was always hitting the bridge and it was built if I remember correctly in the late 1920s. It was known back in 2000 that the Bridge needed to be replacedand they ask for bids and proposals for a replacement bridgebut going to newbridge takes time especially when you got saved up money during the middle of a recession
I remember when towboats used to push against the piers when testing their engines.
I was wondering if maybe it was a WPA project. It looked to be about that old. But the WPA wasn’t until about the early to mid 1930’s.
That's scary. I am glad all you Wildcats survived. Love from Bama.
was it ever replaced?
Yeah?
Mmm that's Mitch McConnell state he says everything is great there. kind of proves it isn't doesn't it??
The US Senators have less to do with the bridges & roadways as do the Democratic Governor currently in office.
doughesson The democratic governor can't do much if the republican senators give all the tax money to bailing out corporations instead of sending it home to make repairs.
@@sophierobinson2738 And the Republican Governor wasn't able to get anything done with the Democrats stymieing his every move.
It was an old bridge that wasn't safe, so they built a new one. No one got hurt, the collapse was expected, so there's nothing to blame anyone for. A bridge replaced in a timely manner is what's supposed to happen. Can't believe I'm defending McConnnell as I can't stand him and I'm not too pleased with KY for inflicting him on the rest of us, but fair is fair.
so 1080p didn't exist in 2015?
I crossed that bridge many times.
I lived near gum springs and went that way many times
hey son, I need to borrow your drone for work. Yes, I'll lift the weekend curfew just this once...
Did this happen after or before Mitch ok'd it
That wrought iron supports look familiar on that bridge. Concrete is the wrong kind of support for wrought iron its too heavy.
At least the replacement bridge is in service now.
This bridge looks like it has always been a little flimsy.
Interesting topic. But the narrator's voice is absolutely unbearable.
I completely agree. I was hoping I wasn't the only one.
It's called "vocal fry," a.k.a., LRV: Liberal Radio Voice.
heartiste.wordpress.com/2018/10/07/lrv-liberal-radio-voice/
Jeff Wilson popular with the snowflakes for some reason.
Jeff Wilson you must live a very privileged life if you think her voice is unbearable
@@cplcabs Not really? Please explain how me complaining about this womans voice is an indicator of my "privledge".
It became “Bedwetter Bridge.”
Should we build it of a material too heavy for a bridge like Lead?
Better!
Boooo!
Get off the stage!
Looks fine
Great video. 💙 T.E.N.
Tea with honey before you narrate might help.
ya, get tired of some women who talk on the radio and such who have that dying, gravelly voice
Should her voice annoy you, you can avoid this annoyance by simply turning your volume to 0 or simply going on to another video. I applaud this young lady for her efforts at narrating this interestingly informative video! Well Done!!
The vocal fry is real
Should this tangent of conversation in the comment section annoy you, you could simply elect not to read it.
She did fine
What are you, some kind of wise guy?
Unless there was some over riding event, I would have started as soon as it was recognized that failure determination. small controlled steps
It had been closed for a while when this happened. The new bridge was already built
Ok boss
This is the bridge where millions where given to fix and less then a year it j7st got a magic hole in the middle of it. We need to deep dive into the materials being used around are country before anymore accidents