Fed up with the hundreds of potholes that line Kansas City streets and a perceived lack of urgency from the city to fix them, Frank Sereno decided the best way to solve the problem was to celebrate it. He threw a birthday party for the 3-month-old pothole on his street, complete with a slice of cake with a candle on top.
Terrible 3's, having a temper tantrum.
An official with the Tennessee Department of Transportation said it's still not clear what caused the bridge's concrete railing to come crashing down onto the I-24 merger with I-75 below. However, officials are confident the bridge is structurally sound and will not cause further injuries.
The bridge was inspected in the middle of last year and showed the bridge was structurally fair, according to TDOT regional bridge manager Steve Hutchings. "It had normal problems that an older bridge would have, but there was nothing structurally wrong with it," he said. "There was no reason for us to suspect anything like this would happen. Everything was in good condition."
Observation: When parts of your bridge fall off, even when it's just a concrete guide rail, it hardly wins over public confidence. It actually, is similiar, at least in the piece that fell off, to the bridge in Syracuse.
According to PennDOT spokesman Ron Young, PennDOT goes through 1.6 million gallons of paint on road projects statewide every year. As Young pointed out, you could fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools with that much paint and still have about 300,000 gallons left over. All that paint can cover 114,000 miles. To put that in perspective, the Earth has a circumference of 24,901 miles.
The NYSDOT maintains 521 miles of state highways and interstates in Erie County and 515 miles of state highways in Saint Lawrence County. 🚧
In contrast, they maintain only 130 miles in all five of New York City boroughs, mostly parkways and expressways that don’t fall under city or Triborough Authority maintenance.