Anti-Strib: Pier 6
I meant to post this to my bridge collapse blog http://riverbridgecollapse.com The link to LRT is admittedly weak but the new I35W bridge has provisions for future light rail, some extra space in the center lanes.
When they were building the Metrodome they found a huge granite rock, maybe 10 x 15 feet during the excavation. This is glacial till and not that unusual in the area. This presumed that the weight of the pier cased the giant granite rock to shift or subside. I doubt it because this could have been very easily measured after the bridge collapse.
Anti-Strib: Pier 6
http://anti-strib.blogspot.com/2007/10/pier-6.html
Pier 6
Everyone knows that I canceled my dead tree edition of the RED Rag quite some time ago because I was tired of supporting the DFL here. So, I was not surprised to see that the RED Rag didn’t bother to even comment on the Tom Lyden’s report on Fox 9 last night opn their website…being that it didn’t fit into the Carol Molnau and Republican bashing agenda. Instead they have decided to run a piece about their second favorite Senator, Busty Amy Klobuchar. (
You see, Tom Lyden did something that the DFL seems unable to do prior to finger pointing in the 35W bridge collapse…he did some investigating, and what he found should be heard by everyone man, woman and child throughout the US today. And it has nothing to do with Lt. Governor Molnau, has nothing to do with a lack of money being spent today on roads…it has to do with a decision made way back when the bridge was being built.
Tom Lyden found an old lawsuit against what we now know as MNDot, by the original bridge construction company, claiming that the bridge could not be built as intended. Pier 6, as it turns out, ran into a problem. As the construction company was drilling down to the bedrock it encountered a rather large problem…granite boulders that stopped the drills right in their tracks. The lawsuit was brought in order to get more money out of the state so that the construction company could deal with the situation…money that the construction would not get.
The lawsuit was settled out of court, and the documents that would shed light on what was done to address the problem are either missing or incomplete…meaning that it is entirely possible that pier 6, and maybe even pier 7, are resting not of bedrock as needed for a stable structure, but rather on granite boulders. If this is indeed the situation, no amount of funding and no amount of spending today could have stopped the bridge from falling…and it certainly isn’t Carol Molnau’s fault.
The DFL needs to stop their finger pointing and witch hunt and do some research themselves. If it is found that pier 6 was not built properly, and that it was Carol’s decision back in the 1960’s, then by all means, go after her…but if not, shut your cake hole and wait until the facts are in.
Did you hear that Sen. Steve Murphy, D-Red Wing?
posted by Brent at 10/10/2007 07:37:00 AM
When they were building the Metrodome they found a huge granite rock, maybe 10 x 15 feet during the excavation. This is glacial till and not that unusual in the area. This presumed that the weight of the pier cased the giant granite rock to shift or subside. I doubt it because this could have been very easily measured after the bridge collapse.
Anti-Strib: Pier 6
http://anti-strib.blogspot.com/2007/10/pier-6.html
Pier 6
Everyone knows that I canceled my dead tree edition of the RED Rag quite some time ago because I was tired of supporting the DFL here. So, I was not surprised to see that the RED Rag didn’t bother to even comment on the Tom Lyden’s report on Fox 9 last night opn their website…being that it didn’t fit into the Carol Molnau and Republican bashing agenda. Instead they have decided to run a piece about their second favorite Senator, Busty Amy Klobuchar. (
You see, Tom Lyden did something that the DFL seems unable to do prior to finger pointing in the 35W bridge collapse…he did some investigating, and what he found should be heard by everyone man, woman and child throughout the US today. And it has nothing to do with Lt. Governor Molnau, has nothing to do with a lack of money being spent today on roads…it has to do with a decision made way back when the bridge was being built.
Tom Lyden found an old lawsuit against what we now know as MNDot, by the original bridge construction company, claiming that the bridge could not be built as intended. Pier 6, as it turns out, ran into a problem. As the construction company was drilling down to the bedrock it encountered a rather large problem…granite boulders that stopped the drills right in their tracks. The lawsuit was brought in order to get more money out of the state so that the construction company could deal with the situation…money that the construction would not get.
The lawsuit was settled out of court, and the documents that would shed light on what was done to address the problem are either missing or incomplete…meaning that it is entirely possible that pier 6, and maybe even pier 7, are resting not of bedrock as needed for a stable structure, but rather on granite boulders. If this is indeed the situation, no amount of funding and no amount of spending today could have stopped the bridge from falling…and it certainly isn’t Carol Molnau’s fault.
The DFL needs to stop their finger pointing and witch hunt and do some research themselves. If it is found that pier 6 was not built properly, and that it was Carol’s decision back in the 1960’s, then by all means, go after her…but if not, shut your cake hole and wait until the facts are in.
Did you hear that Sen. Steve Murphy, D-Red Wing?
posted by Brent at 10/10/2007 07:37:00 AM
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