For 120 years, it’s been essential to Albany’s transportation and industrial history, but now this bridge's days over the Hudson River are coming to a close.
A news crew was reporting on a flood happening in North Carolina when the bridge they were on started to collapse right in front of them, no one was injured & they were able to back away safely.
Over a month ago, a barge, tug boat and the Captain JP broke free and headed down the Hudson river. The Captain JP was wedged beneath a bridge for hours and now they have assessed the damage.
Covered bridges are most certainly a thing of the past, you just don't see them anymore. However, here in the Capital Region, we have the longest one in the world.
Life is a lot faster in the city than it is here in upstate. So fast in fact that a cabbie has been tailgating drivers onto the RFK bridge for two years now to avoid paying tolls. How many tolls? $28,240 worth, which is enough to make this cabbie face up to 7 years jail time...
As humans, we all like to watch things blow up. It's probably why there are so many rednecks walking around with missing fingers from Fourth of July accidents. If we can't actually blow something up, we'll be just as happy watching. Check out this video of the Fort Steuben bridge in Ohio meeting it's demise. One minute it's there, the next it's gone.