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Crack closes interstate bridge between Arkansas & Tennessee Associated Press Updated:  Tags:  Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Transportation officers and police block an Interstate 40 onramp to the bridge over the Mississippi River near downtown Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. The Arkansas Department of Transportation tweeted on Tuesday that it found a crack during a routine inspection of the bridge. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz) MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee remained closed Wednesday after inspectors found a crack i...

Don't show me this message again✕ A huge crack led to the closing of a bridge between Arkansas and Tennessee, with repairs possibly taking months. Thousands of drivers were forced to take detours and part of the Mississippi River was shut down for shipping. The bridge, leading into Memphis in the southwest corner of Tennessee, was shut down on Tuesday afternoon after inspectors found a “significant fracture” in one of two horizontal steel beams stretching across the river. Each beam is 900 feet long. The beams are essential for the bridge's structural integrity, according to Lorie Tud...

A crack in a steel beam, found the Tuesday, has forced the closure of the Interstate 40 bridge that connects Arkansas and Tennessee in Memphis. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Repairs to the Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee could take months after a crack was found in the span, forcing thousands of trucks and cars to detour and shutting down shipping on a section of the Mississippi River, a transportation official said Wednesday. A congressional Democrat from Tennessee flagged the crack as a warning sign of the urgent need to act on fixes to the nation’s infrastructure. The six-l...

Latest COVID Relief Bill Gives $10B to State DOTs State departments of transportation are getting $10 billion in long-awaited emergency aid from a $900 billion COVID-19 relief measure passed by Congress late on December 21 as part of a final year-end legislative package. December 22, 2020 Kevin Smith/Facebook State departments of transportation are getting $10 billion in long-awaited emergency aid from a $900 billion COVID-19 relief measure passed by Congress late on December 21 as part of a final year-end legislative package. President Trump is expected to sign the measure later this week....

Hospitals. they are pektsed to be ok-- exp be okay. they are looking at cabin pressure as being an issue. >> if you drive over a bridge during the morning commute listen up. according to a new report thousands are safety red flags. according to the national bridge inventory 65,000 of the bridges in the u.s. 60,000 of structurally fractured. a bridge legislaregulators say bridge is safe to use but sweeping transportation law enacted last year makes it harder to secure federal aid for bridge repairs. >> after the firing on the jersey shore they will continue to monitor the sites for hot spots. t...