Pennsylvania has bridges for sale

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July 23, 2014 at 9:57 am #2271

PA Ram
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Anybody need a bridge? 1 to 500 bucks.

Uh….you’ll have to move it yourself.

http://news.msn.com/offbeat/want-to-buy-a-bridge-pennsylvania-still-has-11-for-sale

PennDOT is trying to save bridges on the National Register of Historic Places that are not up to the demands of modern traffic. Prices range from $1 to $500, and moving costs can often be paid by the Federal Highway Administration.

The catch is that the buyer must reuse the bridge somewhere else and is responsible for all associated costs.

“They can’t be sold for scrap,” Erin Waters-Trasatt, a PennDOT spokeswoman, said on Monday. “They need to be rehabilitated and preserved.”

One of the bridges for sale is the 111-year-old Pond Eddy Bridge over the Delaware River between Shohola Township, Pennsylvania, and Pond Eddy, New York. Built in 1903, the metal truss bridge is 252 feet long and 16 feet wide.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

July 23, 2014 at 10:19 am #2272

zn
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If someone offers to sell you a bridge in Pennsylvania…beware of hidden costs.

Hmm. We have just seen a near-universal old saying change meaning.

August 2, 2014 at 7:08 pm #3105

Mackeyser
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how the heck does one move a bridge?

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August 2, 2014 at 7:14 pm #3107

zn
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131-year-old Pa. bridge may move to Alabama

Associated Press

Friday, March 21, 2014

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/21/131-year-old-pa-bridge-may-move-to-alabama/

READING, Pa. (AP) – A 131-year-old eastern Pennsylvania bridge might gain a new lease on life in a warmer climate.

Berks County officials are considering a proposal to ship the Wiley’s Road Bridge in Ontelaunee Township to Alabama, The Reading Eagle reported Friday.

County commissioner Kevin Barnhardt said Alabama officials would use the truss span to provide access to a historic bridge that activists there want to save. The interest group, Workin‘ Bridges, would pay or seek funding to disassemble, transport and reassemble the span, officials said.

Barnhardt briefed the Reading Area Transportation Study on the plan on Thursday, cautioning that the proposal isn’t final and would need the approval of commissioners.

“The upside is someone would save the bridge,” he said. The downside: “You’d have to drive down to Alabama to see it.”

Township supervisors last year turned down a deal in which the county would fix the span and turn it over to the township. The county then planned to demolish the bridge. That alarmed preservation advocates who say such a rare type of truss bridge should not be destroyed, as well as bicyclists who use the span to reach Lake Ontelaunee without taking major roads.

Barnhardt said moving the bridge would keep its history intact, and the county hasn’t ruled out installing a pedestrian bridge that cyclists could use after it is removed.

Workin‘ Bridges wants the span to provide access to the 2,143-foot B.B. Comer Bridge over the Tennessee River near Scottsboro, Ala., which it is trying to preserve.

August 3, 2014 at 8:29 am #3146

PA Ram
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Great. Alabama is taking our bridges.

And how will we get over rivers and train tracks? Hang gliders?

An old rusty, nearly condemned bridge–now that you can trust. Getting shot from circus cannons or getting a running start and hitting a trampoline to make that jump?

Well, let’s just say that I’m not going first.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

August 3, 2014 at 9:18 am #3150

wv
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Bridges and Lighthouses.
Humans seem to have an attachment
to those things.

And Pizza.

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