Noteworthy tidbit in this P-I article about inspectors checking area bridges after the Minneapolis collapse: The Admiral Way bridge is one of five in the city with special electronic detectors that monitor it for signs of trouble. (Side note for historic-photo geeks like us, the city archives have lots of shots of its 1949-50 construction, such as this and this.)
HA! Don’t let the city fool you!
The reason for those electronic sensors are to detect any speeders going across the bridge!
Not only that, they can determine who has just run the red light heading eastbound from Calif. Av, aaannnnnndddd they can determine who is going to run it heading westbound!
Gotta go now, the black helicopters are circling again! :p
Mike
hehehe….I live on 42nd, just off Admiral. When they first put that light in at 41st, I bet I ran it 4-5 times…then I got used to it being there.
WSB, thanks for the pictures of the bridge construction…there were lots in the archives. Was fun to look at the pics of Seattle, too…
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