A cracked beam was discovered in the I-40 bridge between Tennessee and Arkansas, causing an immediate shutdown of all traffic Tuesday. Barges have since resumed travel, but cars are still banned as engineers rush to repair the bridge.
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The universe is telling you to stay out of Tennessee lol 😂
I was stuck in that bridge for 4 h
This sucks
Richmond Virginia
Honestly the roads in Tennessee are terrible. There’s no income tax but tax on everything else is high. I want to see what we are spending our money on.
Build a new bridge.
Meanwhile republicans :
no taxes for big corporations
No we don’t want infrastructure spending
I always was afraid of the Memphis bridge.it looks scary 😦 to drive across
It's still closed and not repaired smh.
I was on the bridge the moment traffic was shut down. Crazy stuff.
I can tell you that you are all wasting your breath on the infrastructure bill, everyone here thinks the bridge shutdown was a Biden conspiracy to pass his “socialist agenda†in the form of an infrastructure bill.
When you live in memphis. 👀
It just 1 crack, how bad can it go?
How much excess fossil fuel is wasted.. taking the long way home? just saying..
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The trillions of dollars this corrupt government has spent with everyone’s money and NEITHER party has done anything except talk, talk, and talk. As someone once said “all talk no action†Both the brides…I-40 and I-55 should be rebuilt. That I-55 bridge is a horrible road as far back as I can remember and now because of this all traffic is going across that! It’ll be a matter of time before that one breaks.
No one will complain if their dead, so let them pass…..
We’ve got the Jimmie Davis Bridge in Shreveport/Bossier City that was supposed to be torn down and replace with a new one 3 years ago but because of a birds nest and the environmental agency interfering the contractors sued the state and the bridge is in serious need of construction before catastrophe hits
New Jersey’s is the same
It's hard fr us drivers I ran out of clock trying to gt bck to memphis wen I was 5 mins away it took a 1hr
I see this traffic everyday going home and I feel sorry for the truck drivers man my company won the job to rehab this and I will see what I can find out in the schedule of this
This Is What Happens In Ghetto Run Cities.👥
The ADOT worker in charge of inspecting the bridge literally let it go unnoticed since 2017, that's some criminal negligence.
Weld it back together. Had a friend who swore he could weld up the crack of dawn….
Maybe Tennessee representatives and senators need to stop taking corporate money and spend on infrastructure
My city is on the news. They had that bridge shut down in no time. Now the traffic is horrific.
Trump : "I'm going fix that beautiful bridge..its gonna be tremendous ..we have the best steel in the world .the best workers in the world..it will be fantastic"
Ohh 😮
Hey we’re on the news!
Its ok we still have time to give 3.8 billion dollars to isreal 🙃
Check out Baron's Man Cave
Gee! Maybe stop sending $ to other countries to build them up
Traffic isn't really that bad tho
I have lived in Memphis my whole life. The amount of money the city/state itself cuts for stupid things is a result of this I feel like. Honestly the crack has probably been there for awhile before it was noticed. It’s a shame that Memphis is getting another shine for something bad. Come on y’all let’s do better….
Olive Branch ðŸ•ÅÂ
Memphis is so pitiful it’s sad
Whats worst the crime or the crack?
We could have done this when Obama was president and the economy was bad but Treasury Secretary Robert Reich said that an infrastructure bill would only benefit "white construction workers".
To be honest all of this is BS the taxes that Tennessee residents pay that bridge shouldn't have broken crack on none of that. It's all a money grab to get some of the stimulus to fix the bridge rather than take some of that tax money that they're texting their Tennessee residents. I guess they're going to pocket that or lie like it's going into Child Care developmentðŸ˜ÂÂ😅.
this is something, that should have been done a long time ago, to all the old fashioned, bridges old bridges
Sleepy Joe's infrastructure bill shows hundreds of millions for public housing and other expenditures not related to infrastructure. My thought on infrastructure would be roads, bridges, communication, dams, electric grid. Things that benefit ALL taxpayers. The bill as laid out now is just another pork bill on steroids. Keep in mind that this structural failure should have been found years ago. Don't try to say that if Sleepy's bill would pass, this would never have happened.
Memphis needs another Bridge.