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Auckland Harbour Bridge hit by truck 3

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Agent666

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Jul 2, 2008
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A couple of days ago in freak wind gust (120km/hr reported) a truck tipped over and hit one of the diagonal struts on the Auckland Harbour Bridge shearing off the bolts and causing structural damage to the strut.

Another truck was tipped over onto the median barrier.


They closed the centre 4 lanes, effectively going from 5 peak hour lanes to 2. Bridge is the only harbour crossing to the north shore of Auckland.

Several weeks to fix permanently apparently, a temporary fix was done last night. Which as I understand it will enable an additional lane to open each way.

Traffic has been a nightmare! 3 times longer journey times if you're trying to cross or go the long way round.
 
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OK, I get the point, but don't think the word 'strut' is particularly sesquipedalian.
 
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hokie66 said:
OK, I get the point, but don't think the word 'strut' is particularly sesquipedalian.
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...unless it refers to one that happens to be 457 mm long.
 
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almost like words for some German numbers...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?
-Dik
 
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All of this strutting around is a bit tiresome, it is giving me a tension headache.
 
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TenPenny said:
All of this strutting around is a bit tiresome, it is giving me a tension headache.
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I've been looking for those words for a few days now.
Good work on finding them first.

Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter
 
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I think hokie needs a MRI as a structural using words like that.

German numbers are a mind screw....

Must admit I have never used strut before in my puff in regards to structures. Be it in tension or compression.

Member used to get used a lot. But half of that was the secondary rude meaning if you were Scottish.

Bit like when IMechE sent out a missive for a conference on flange design on a friday at 11am.. With the subject "that subject we all know and love. And then the body went on calling for papers on nonlinear flange design. It meant pretty much the whole of the faculty was in the pub by 2 pm... discussing flange design...

 
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Nothing like a bridge incident to rile up the population prior to a general election,

surprised Crusher Collins & National are not making a much bigger stink about this, given that a second harbour crossing is a cornerstone of their platform which can be summarized in short as "roads, roads, and more roads"
 
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