Building implosions always offer the best spectacle to watch up close or on video, but you can't help but enjoy the light show a bridge implosion puts on. And the latest bridge to be raised to the ground by explosive demolition didn't disappoint.
This is the Innerbelt Bridge in Cleveland, Ohio which has stood since 1959. It was 1,290 meters in length and 35 meters wide, and it carried the traffic of Insterstate 90 until 2008 when the structure was deemed unsafe. It was reopened, but is now being replaced by the George V. Voinovich Bridges.
The implosion was carried out early on the morning of July 12th and went off without a hitch. It's incredible to imagine that a bridge that took from 1954 to 1959 to build cost $26 million over 50 years ago. I hate to think what that cost is in today's terms.
July 17, 2014
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