Highlands vibration

Courier Senior Staff Writer Alyssa Passeggio interviewed Highlands residents about the vibrations from the bridge replacement.

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• bridge
• Alyssa
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[morguebabe]

I feel the pain, I had stuff fall off my shelf's.

[inspiron43]

, had the builders of 1932 been faced with this choice I'm sure they would opt for replacement and had they not we would still be using the original swing bridge from the 1880's.

In 110 years people will be fighting to save the new bridge from being replaced. If you want to preserve something there is an entire town from the 1890's that is falling apart just up the road at sandy hook.

[inspiron43]

The old highlands bridge was a very nice bridge, found pictures of it from the 1940's and it was paved with brick pavers and had very ornate concrete lamp posts, it was also awarded the institute of steel construction's award for beauty in the 30's. Now its a deteriorated and tired bridge, the original lamps are gone, and the pavers have been replaced with asphalt. Bridges are not meant to last forever, the new bridge is not meant to last forever

[inspiron43]

the lack of a divider to the bridges and low scour resistance, the wooden piles that the piers sit on do not go down to bedrock and can be eroded away and cause the bridge to suddenly collapse just like in 1987 when the Schoharie Creek Bridge collapsed and killed ten people.

Also there is the traffic jams caused by the opening ans closing of the bridge, the amount of traffic is much greater than it was in 1932, it is also much heavier.

[inspiron43]

Did you know that 35% of all the bridges in New Jersey are ether structurally deficient or functionally obsolete and I have heard (but cannot confirm) that there are on average 150 to 200 partial or full bridge span collapses every year in this country. Even if the bridge were to be rehabilitated it would still be functionally obsolete because of a long list of problems ranging from...