The spot where this was taken, the Oradell Avenue Veterans Memorial Bridge, was built in 1904.
This two-lane road with sidewalks,
though it has carried 25,000 people every day, is now believed to be “structurally
deficient and functionally obsolete,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer, in a
visit to the bridge 2 ½ years ago.
I’m not sure of the current status of Gottheimer’s attempt
to claw back more than $1.14 billion in investment from the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Bill— to help fix structurally deficient bridges susceptible to
collapse. Let’s hope that this one isn’t one of them.
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