Tras el colapso parcial del puente Francis Scott Key en la ciudad estadounidense de Baltimore (Maryland), los medios han descubierto que la mayoría de los viaductos en Estados Unidos carecen de algún tipo de protección contra impactos.
Según la prensa, no es la primera vez que en el país ocurre un accidente similar. En 1980, el derrumbre del puente Sunshine Skyway en la bahía de Tampa provocó la muerte de 35 personas. Posteriormente, se modificaron los estándares de construcción para que los puentes levantados después de 1991 incorporaran medidas de protección adicionales.
El Francis Scott Key, que colapsó tras el choque del portacontenedores Dali, fue construido en los años 1970 y no cumplía con los estándares actuales, por lo que requería de actualizaciones significativas, explicó Andy Herrmann, un ingeniero de puentes retirado.
Herrmann sugirió varias soluciones para la reconstrucción del viaducto, como reforzar los pilares o instalar sistemas de defensa, conocidos como ‘guardabarros’, para minimizar el impacto de colisiones. En EE.UU. hay 4.207 puentes que permiten el paso de barcos por debajo, y solo el 36 % está dotado de protección funcional de los pilares.
Como consecuencia del derrumbe del puente de Baltimore, los ocho trabajadores que estaban reparando sus baches cayeron al agua. Solo dos de ellos fueron rescatados. Los otros seis fueron declarados muertos. El miércoles, dos cadáveres fueron encontrados el el río Patapsco.
El presidente de EE.UU., Joe Biden, prometió “remover cielo y tierra” para reconstruir la infraestructura “tan pronto como sea humanamente posible”.
PrisioneroEnArgentina.com
Abril 4, 2024
34 thoughts on “La mayoría de los puentes en EE.UU. carecen de protecciones contra impactos”
Our bridges should display a warning about their disrepair so people using them know and take their changes if that is what they want or start putting pressure so they are fixed.
I can tell you that infrastructures of the US are equivalent to many of the developing nations in some areas. And not just bridges but everything, from public transportations to services to a level of professionalism in general. That would require like 20+ years of billions of dollars each year from tax payers and it won’t be fixed overnight but takes a full generation or two generations maybe to see an improvement even. The US roads are just very poor in general. Public transportations are not accessible and almost nonexistent and well dangerous. Don’t get me started on overall safety of the country either. Almost like a developing country. I also think it’s because it’s too large of a country and very divided. In reality it’s nothing like the name of the country.
○ Our infrastructure is in very bad shape if you travel the country, especially off the main thoroughfare. You would probably turn around a lot if you got out of your car or whatever to look under the bridge your about to pass over. While traveling the USA i use to stop and get out to search riverbeds for interesting rocks to tumble when i got home and i saw a lot of decay under the bridges that people don’t normally see. The roads and bridges are worse than the nice pie chart i do believe, but that’s just my opinion.
Existing bridge maintenance is an operating expense that is often underfunded due to budgeting pressures. So, politicians prefer to build new things (not just bridges) with debt, not maintain them to reduce budgets, then replace the poorly maintained deteriorated infrastructure with new things funded with debt, and the cycle continues ad nauseum.
Turns out that car infrastructure is financially unsustainable as well as environmentally unsustainable. Building and maintaining 20 highway bridges instead of 1 train bridge that could carry the same amount of traffic or cargo gets expensive. Cyclists and pedestrians, of course, don’t need bridges as often. In fact, most “pedestrian” bridges are really car infrastructure, to get pedestrians out of the way so that motorists don’t have to slow down or pay attention to their surroundings.
The Brent Spence Bridge Bridge that carries I-75 across the Ohio River between Kentucky and Ohio has large chunks of concrete roadway falling from the upper deck onto traffic on the lower deck. That has been happening for decades. Yet it never gets priority when bridge repairs are mentioned. Why is it being ignored?
The infrastructure across the nation needed repairs back in the 90’s. Americans were warned it would all cost around $5 trillion, but Americans decided it wasn’t important and decided to fund other things… I was part of the people who wanted it repaired at that time. In my opinion, the issue is much worse and the chances of it being repaired is close to zero. 7 years of red tape to repair or rebuild a bridge. There’s major issues besides bridges and that includes dams that will eventually burst and flood out entire communities.
USA is such a poorly run country. Our governments are doing very poor job maintaining and repairing bridges and tunnels. It is a huge disgrace that our infrastructure is crumbling before our very eyes. There are so many things in America that can be fixed and drastically improved upon. It is time to look at things with critical eyes.
Let’s see, improving and replacing our bridges is a problem with execution, not from a lack of resources. As the most recent legislation has shown, we spend plenty of money on “infrastructure” but not nearly enough on infrastructure.
New bridge construction is a capital expense, typically funded with bonds, i.e., debt. Existing bridge maintenance is an operating expense that is often underfunded due to budgeting pressures. So, politicians prefer to build new things (not just bridges) with debt, not maintain them to reduce budgets, then replace the poorly maintained deteriorated infrastructure with new things funded with debt, and the cycle continues ad nauseum.
America would rather increase military budget by $50 billion making it $800 billion a year than fix infrastructure. Military budget doesn’t even include billions given away to other countries. Imagine what America could have been if they simply reinvested in their country and citizens by providing not only better roads but a nationalized healthcare.
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Según la prensa, no es la primera vez que en el país ocurre un accidente similar. En 1980, el derrumbre del puente Sunshine Skyway en la bahía de Tampa provocó la muerte de 35 personas. Posteriormente, se modificaron los estándares de construcción para que los puentes levantados después de 1991 incorporaran medidas de protección adicionales.
El Francis Scott Key, que colapsó tras el choque del portacontenedores Dali, fue construido en los años 1970 y no cumplía con los estándares actuales, por lo que requería de actualizaciones significativas, explicó Andy Herrmann, un ingeniero de puentes retirado.
Herrmann sugirió varias soluciones para la reconstrucción del viaducto, como reforzar los pilares o instalar sistemas de defensa, conocidos como ‘guardabarros’, para minimizar el impacto de colisiones. En EE.UU. hay 4.207 puentes que permiten el paso de barcos por debajo, y solo el 36 % está dotado de protección funcional de los pilares.
Como consecuencia del derrumbe del puente de Baltimore, los ocho trabajadores que estaban reparando sus baches cayeron al agua. Solo dos de ellos fueron rescatados. Los otros seis fueron declarados muertos. El miércoles, dos cadáveres fueron encontrados el el río Patapsco.
El presidente de EE.UU., Joe Biden, prometió “remover cielo y tierra” para reconstruir la infraestructura “tan pronto como sea humanamente posible”.
PrisioneroEnArgentina.com
Abril 4, 2024
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We need infrastructure now!
White House just send 1 Billion dollars to Ukraine.
This how US Tax Payers Money well spent.
With third world grade of investments in infrastructure comes third world infrastructure.
Our bridges should display a warning about their disrepair so people using them know and take their changes if that is what they want or start putting pressure so they are fixed.
I can tell you that infrastructures of the US are equivalent to many of the developing nations in some areas. And not just bridges but everything, from public transportations to services to a level of professionalism in general. That would require like 20+ years of billions of dollars each year from tax payers and it won’t be fixed overnight but takes a full generation or two generations maybe to see an improvement even. The US roads are just very poor in general. Public transportations are not accessible and almost nonexistent and well dangerous. Don’t get me started on overall safety of the country either. Almost like a developing country. I also think it’s because it’s too large of a country and very divided. In reality it’s nothing like the name of the country.
Some ROMAN bridges are still in use…
Billions on military non for Infrastructure.
Разве Байден ещё не сказал, что это из-за России?
Bridges don’t bribe members of Congress.
Literally everything in America is in decline
the government doesn’t seem to think it’s a serious enough problem to spend real money on the issue.
it’s not a good business to fix them.
March 10th, Congress decided to send Ukraine $13.6 billion and cancelled $15 billion Covid fund originally aimed to help US people. Good job!
Political corruption and greed.
Our politicians are dishonest criminals.
How do they become so rich?
(not working for the people, of course)
Politicians don’t care ! Period ! Lies after lies
“Fun” fact: America has 43000 bridges in need of repairs
Roughly, 1 trillion bucks.
○ Our infrastructure is in very bad shape if you travel the country, especially off the main thoroughfare. You would probably turn around a lot if you got out of your car or whatever to look under the bridge your about to pass over. While traveling the USA i use to stop and get out to search riverbeds for interesting rocks to tumble when i got home and i saw a lot of decay under the bridges that people don’t normally see. The roads and bridges are worse than the nice pie chart i do believe, but that’s just my opinion.
Suburbia is a Ponzi scheme of the least efficient zoning
if we were ever invaded by Russia, they would have a hell of a time getting their convoys around with all our bridges collapsing on them.
I really hate to see that too little money is given to infrastructure maintenance
Existing bridge maintenance is an operating expense that is often underfunded due to budgeting pressures. So, politicians prefer to build new things (not just bridges) with debt, not maintain them to reduce budgets, then replace the poorly maintained deteriorated infrastructure with new things funded with debt, and the cycle continues ad nauseum.
Turns out that car infrastructure is financially unsustainable as well as environmentally unsustainable. Building and maintaining 20 highway bridges instead of 1 train bridge that could carry the same amount of traffic or cargo gets expensive. Cyclists and pedestrians, of course, don’t need bridges as often. In fact, most “pedestrian” bridges are really car infrastructure, to get pedestrians out of the way so that motorists don’t have to slow down or pay attention to their surroundings.
America has funds for wars but not bridges. Learn the lesson from Greek city states which became bankrupt due to chronic wars.
The Brent Spence Bridge Bridge that carries I-75 across the Ohio River between Kentucky and Ohio has large chunks of concrete roadway falling from the upper deck onto traffic on the lower deck. That has been happening for decades. Yet it never gets priority when bridge repairs are mentioned. Why is it being ignored?
El que cobró el seguro de las Torres, es el mismo que ahora, cobró el seguro del Puente. ¿Habrá alguna casualidad o estas no existen?
The infrastructure across the nation needed repairs back in the 90’s. Americans were warned it would all cost around $5 trillion, but Americans decided it wasn’t important and decided to fund other things… I was part of the people who wanted it repaired at that time. In my opinion, the issue is much worse and the chances of it being repaired is close to zero. 7 years of red tape to repair or rebuild a bridge. There’s major issues besides bridges and that includes dams that will eventually burst and flood out entire communities.
USA is such a poorly run country. Our governments are doing very poor job maintaining and repairing bridges and tunnels. It is a huge disgrace that our infrastructure is crumbling before our very eyes. There are so many things in America that can be fixed and drastically improved upon. It is time to look at things with critical eyes.
Let’s see, improving and replacing our bridges is a problem with execution, not from a lack of resources. As the most recent legislation has shown, we spend plenty of money on “infrastructure” but not nearly enough on infrastructure.
New bridge construction is a capital expense, typically funded with bonds, i.e., debt.
Existing bridge maintenance is an operating expense that is often underfunded due to budgeting pressures. So, politicians prefer to build new things (not just bridges) with debt, not maintain them to reduce budgets, then replace the poorly maintained deteriorated infrastructure with new things funded with debt, and the cycle continues ad nauseum.
US has funds for Ukraine, Israel… but not bridges.
America would rather increase military budget by $50 billion making it $800 billion a year than fix infrastructure. Military budget doesn’t even include billions given away to other countries. Imagine what America could have been if they simply reinvested in their country and citizens by providing not only better roads but a nationalized healthcare.
Yeah. Other countries are more important than our.