Johnny Cash wrote a song about Kinzua

https://youtu.be/ni_EdsL-avU

Cheaped out on the bolts

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Why crazy? It was 100 years old and hadn't been used in 40 years. At some point it would have fallen over in a stiff breeze.

In the process of it being restored too, it sucks but it was super old at the same time.

throw some rocks. they put all this nice new gravel at the beginning of the walkway. it sounds so cool when ya hit the metal.

I walked across it when I was like…12 years old. They didn’t have a pedestrian walkway, so you had to walk on the railroad ties. It was fine when your line of sight was focused outward, but when I looked down between the ties, it would stop me in my tracks.

Right up until you realize that it wasn’t part of the metal structure you hit, but someone hiking on the many trails along the bottom. Dolt.

Johnny cash wrote a song about kinzua dam not kinzua bridge.

I read it as "crazy it hasn't fallen down before a tornado hit it"

It was fine until someone tried to fix it and the fix made it fall down.

More like not understanding physics.

I think there was actually a study that involved the bolts. The bridge had been rebuilt at one point and they decided to extend the bolts instead of replace them or something.

Ok thanks for the clarification Captian Ackshully.

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"OUCH!!" Bonus points!! smh, no one likes this joke.

• JUST KIDDING. DO NOT TOSS ROCKS.

It stopped you in their tracks too

Same, remember visiting as a kid and was wild just walking across it.

Yep, walked across it so many times as a kid. It’s still wild to me, seeing it in its current state.

Is 100 really old for a bridge?

Really awesome place to visit - definitely worth the trip.

It's pretty old yeah. Most overpasses are designed with an assumption of 50-75 hears of life. A suspension bridge like the Verrazano Narrows, Ben Franklin, or Golden Gate are designed to last forever (hence why they are so large and relatively overbuilt).

100 years is typical for a bridge, but one of this size may be actually be on the lower end.

The reason this bridge fell was because of an engineering choice regarding modifications to the anchor bolts at the base of the towers. Pretty interesting to look in to.

Basically what bucks said. Didn't help that before that the bridge had absolutely no maintenance done for a long time before its restoration. Was really just a whammy of unfortunate events that caused its collapse.

Same here

I can’t imagine stepping across rail road ties without looking down while on the ground, let alone on a bridge.

Its right in my back yard. And as a kid we would ride bicycles across it.

Considering the industrial revolution was around then sure.

Iron vs steel if I remember correctly

Well, if you look down at about a 45 degree angle, you don’t see through, but still have a good idea of foot placement.