Manhattan bridge bending caught on video
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
MSNBC recently put up a video that was made by a photographer that created a 2 hour timelapse of the Manhattan Bridge. Sure, it’s cool to see all of those cars zoom by but the real thing you should be focusing on is the immense bend that the bridge is subject to as it gets loaded.
Don’t worry though, the Manhattan Bridge isn’t going to break anytime soon because bridges such as these were made to compensate for some bending and swaying.
Of course, the news anchor has to give you frightening facts such as how many people cross it everyday along with the fact that it was built in 1909 but remember, it’s the media.
Head over to Jalopnik to peep the video as there was a problem with the embedding.
Tags: Bridge, manhattan, msnbc, saftey, video