When Did You Last See a Bridge Move Without an Earthquake? This Weekend is Your Chance!

Taking a page from Elon Musk's SpaceX construction project in Boca Chica (Texas), the state of Maine's largest city (Portland) will be using SPMTs (Self-Propelled Mobile Transports) this coming weekend.

It all starts at 7 PM (EDT) on Friday April 22 and continuing through 11 AM on Monday April 25, 2022. "It" is the replacement of a bridge on one of the busiest roads in the state: I-295. The whole highway will be closed, the existing overpass will be demolished, the rubble will be removed, and the previously-constructed replacement overpass will take a ride on the SPMTs to its new home... and you can watch it all happen on-line!

The $20.8 million project has a web site: https://verandaplan.org/Linking to active content on their site is non-trivial, but try: https://verandaplan.org/livestream. Here's a short YouTube video of the bridge being moved in preparation for the actual "moving day".

The time has come: Veranda Street bridge project starts this week:

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