State engineer: Tacoma bridge "beyond repair"

[flamingyouth]

The Alaskan Way Viaduct and 520 bridge are bad enough, but drivers who brave one of the worst spans in Washington state are flirting with disaster.

The steel on downtown Tacoma's Murray Morgan Bridge is so corroded, state engineers want the 1911 drawbridge closed. But the city has balked, arguing it needs that link to its industrial tidelands.

"The bridge, in my opinion, is beyond repair," said Jugesh Kapur, chief bridge engineer at the state Department of Transportation. "We really want to shut it down because we are taking a risk every day by keeping that bridge open."

Murray Morgan is among the worst of more than 300 bridges statewide deemed "structurally deficient."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003819597_wabridges03m.html

[maxsolomon]

1. good thing we threw the future of our infrastructure down a hole

shaped like iraq.

fear is the mind killer...