Green Bay: I-43 bridge over Fox River closed indefinitely after support pier settles

Yea, especially if they choke, Let the Road rage begin!

 

I remember when this bridge was built and yes it does need to be that high. In fact there was a great deal of controversy about it being too low. In the Green Bay Press Gazette there was a cartoon with logging trucks on top of the bridge throwing logs onto a ship so it could fit under the bridge (water level used to be higher) and so the trucks would be lighter. I know it was just a cartoon, but the concerns were real at the time.

172 isn't the only thing that is getting extra traffic. The main street bridge, Main street, Webster, Quincy, University, Broadway and Mather/Velp are all seeing extra traffic. There's a lot of trucking activity that originates in close proximity to the bridge on both sides of the river. Paper mills on the east side and oil/gas, concrete and things brought in by the ships that go under that bridge on the west side

 

Fracking
Fracking
Fracking

 

I just love how they have closed the ramps from 172 onto 41 south and from 41 north onto 172.

 

So what happens later down the road when some more Piers sink?

 

Well that is great no more driving in that construction.