Manhattan Bridge Gettin' Jiggy With It


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A time-lapse video of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City shows the how the bridge bounces as traffic flows over it.

WPIX News asked the NY Department of Transportation what's up with the wiggles, and got this response:


"The bridge has moved this way for the last 100 years - exactly the way it was designed to  - and it can move up to 16 inches daily with normal traffic conditions.  The long-span suspension bridge flexibility by design allows the bridge to manage the weight of the traffic and subway cars it carries and the temperature shifts that occur throughout the year."


The Manhattan Bridge spans the East River from Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn.  It opened in December, 1909, and has been renovated during the past 20 years.

You may have seen the bridge in such films as "Ghostbusters," and "Independence Day," and "I Am Legend."

Videography by Kevin Vertrees

- via wpix

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.


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Sad when basic stuff like this amazes and baffles the general (public educated) populace.

Hard to believe in just 60 years the US has lost it's world dominance in science and engineering.
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There are a number of troubling things here. The first is that you can say this about anyone: "one man thought it would be funny to urinate on the beehive." More troubling is this: "He convinced several other men to do the same."

Was there no one in the group with the low IQ necessary to say, "Umm...I don't think that's such a good idea?" Were these people perhaps going outside for the first times in their lives, with no exposure to books, magazines, television, the internet, that might have taught them not to pee on beehives?

I think that I will spend the rest of my day telling all I encounter they should avoid doing as these men did. You see, there are people in my life that I dislike - some, intensely - but none I dislike so much that I wish them bee stings on their genitals.

NO PEES FOR THE BEES!
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Daniel, as a male, I'm not surprised that our gender carries out a disproportionate number of these kinds of acts. Miss C, I'm just gonna hope that when these guys sobered up, they didn't think, "Man that was fun."
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Some time in the mid 20s my grandmother took pity on her bees during a very cold (cold for Kent, that is) winter and put a saucer of sugar water outside their hive. For her troubles, she was stung on both eyelids.
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