Should be cool, on the news at Noon.

Middle section is gone.

No shit -- I remember driving over that hunk of crap when I was younger. That metal grate at the top that made your car swerve was scary.

I don't know where this is...

It's the bridge from Jamestown to North Kingston in RI.

Yeah, that metal grate that you could look straight down and see the water!

those are all over the place up here.

i love this bridge when i was younger but it was so out dated, it was a single lane, right?

2 lanes, 1 each way, it was always scary when you would pass a big truck!

PICTURES

I remember going over that bridge on the way home everytime my family went to Rocky Point

The whole middle part is gone.

you are f'n kiding me.
that is HUGE.

they've been trying to sell the demolition project to movies for years now...guess they gave up?

Gone!

Check the news later, they replayed the implosion a bunch of times.

My friend ran across the whole thing naked and drunk once...sad to see it go!

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0604/gal...y.bridge.demo/frameset.exclude.html

That was the coolest part to watch live.

wow
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/18/jamestown.bridge.ap/index.html

Thats some shit!
What are they doing with it when it lands in the water? (too lazy to read the article)
I remember hearing years ago that they were going to let it sink and become a 'reef' at the bottom of the ocean...

job security, now some assholes have to spend the next 5 years cleaning shit out of the water after blowin it up.

AUTOPSY_666 said:

Haha, I can see you guys never drove in Europe. Man, sometimes in the mountains it can be FREEEKY, and I'm not even going to talk about Poland.

http://www.fqsclabel.com/

wait is that the bridge you hung off a few years ago?

i hung out with some friends on the old bridge a few months ago.

spitting off it was killer...you could spit like 100 feet....wind just takes it.

i was really stoned....maybe that's why I found it so fun.

i was trying to nail boats passin underneath...no good aim.

I was standing on the NK side of this. They didn't even give some kind of warning to tell us that the bridge was going down. Just a quick burst of noise, slow falling midsection, ash. That's it. I guess I always thought a bridge demolition would be cool or something.

armageddann said:


driving in hawaii is often very similar...basically you have to beep your horn around the corner because crazy locals drive down narrow cliffside roads at blazing speeds while other cars are coming the opposite around the corner. If you beep there's a chance the locals will react and give a little room on the road.

are there any more photos of the aftermath?

Judging by the picture already posted in this thread, it probably would have looked cooler on TV instead of watching it in person from an angle where the new bridge was in the way...

SPLASH!!!