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One article mentioned that it was built in 50s, but most recently "redone" (completely rebuilt?) in the 80s. The one that is referenced for the condition and traffic data.
B137 (
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19:36, 31 March 2017 (UTC)reply
"The bridge over Piedmont Road was built in 1953 and was last reconstructed in 1985, according to the Federal Highway Administration's national bridge inspection database."
B137 (
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19:37, 31 March 2017 (UTC)reply
I don't have a source but what I know from being a local: The Buford-Spring highway 13 bridge is the old one built in 1953. This was formerly I-85, until the current overpass (collapsed) was finished in 1985. --
ferret (
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19:57, 31 March 2017 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure of the years, but what Ferret said is correct. What is now called the Buford/Spring connector or SR13 is the four-lane divided highway that you see in the disaster photos and videos that is immediately adjacent to (and LOWER than) the collapsed section. Prior to the construction of the now-collapsed bridge in the 1980s, the lower section WAS the entirety of I-85. When widening was needed, they opted to build a new roadway to one side and make the old roadway into an "access road" type thing. That explains the different dates on the bridge - the lower SR13 bridge would have been built in the 1950's with the rest of the Interstate highway system. In photos you can distinguish the two bridges from their pillars - the older bridge has square pillars and the newer bridge's pillars are round. That having been said, we need to find some
reliable sources that will back all this up. I imagine some Atlanta Journal-Constitution archive articles from the early 1950s and the early 1980s would probably contain some of this. --
Krelnik (
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20:45, 31 March 2017 (UTC)reply
OK, I found more information on Permissions, they will allow you to use Fair Use and they ask that when using a Google product screenshot that you put the following tagline beneath any image featuring a Google product screenshot or data: