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Irving Rubin, also 58 years old, died in July 1963, when he fell off of the bridge approach. [108] [71]: 91 The third worker who died was 19-year-old Gerard McKee, who fell into the water in October 1963, after slipping off the catwalk. [71]: 91 [109] [110] After McKee's death, workers participated in a five-day strike in December 1963. The ...
By early 1999, there were more than 500 potholes on the bridge, requiring workers to use 22.5 short tons (20.1 long tons; 20.4 t) of concrete and 65 short tons (58 long tons; 59 t) of asphalt to repave the deck. [287] Work on replacing the Queens span's suspender cables and adding an orthotropic deck to the Queens suspension span started in 2000.
The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (officially known as Bridge 9340) was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River one-half mile (875 m) downstream from the Saint Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA), doing business as MTA Bridges and Tunnels, is an affiliate agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that operates seven toll bridges and two tunnels in New York City. The TBTA is the largest bridge and tunnel toll agency in the United States by traffic volume.
The Throgs Neck Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City, carrying six lanes of Interstate 295 (I-295) over the East River where it meets the Long Island Sound.The bridge connects the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx with the Bay Terrace section of Queens.
Love locks immediately began appearing on the Pont de l'Archevêché [9] and have since spread to at least 11 Seine bridges, the Canal Saint Martin footbridges, and to parks and monuments all over the city. Many tourists mistakenly believe this is a longstanding Parisian tradition, not realizing the practice only migrated into Paris in late ...