Talk:Interstate 85 bridge collapse

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Google Maps Traffic date confirms that traffic in the area is more congested around the closure. https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7930293,-84.2949372,12.5z/data=!5m1!1e1?hl=en B137 (talk) 19:04, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Info about the bridge

Can we please get some info about the bridge, e.g. when it was built, who designed it, who built it, etc.?Zigzig20s (talk) 19:05, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 (talk) 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 (talk) 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 (talk) 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 (talk) 20:45, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Google Street view

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8135991,-84.3666017,3a,60y,76.83h,88.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svS-4KgMNYjAeg8EoFVt14Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Are google street view images permissible or do they have copyright?

Copyrighted, but they show that the pipes were there for about 5 years, since 2012. B137 (talk) 19:18, 1 April 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:

Some of the news articles have stated they were stored since 2005-2006. -- ferret (talk) 21:14, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]