The Michigan Department of Transportation for the first time will replace a bridge by building a new one next to the old one, then sliding it into place.
The “bridge slide” method is planned this year for a new, wider I-96 overpass on M-50/Alden Nash Avenue SE.
This is kinda like a high tech version of moving blocks in to place when building ancient buildings, only using sliding pads and hydraulics instead of moving logs in front of a gigantic block pulled by slaves.
I might have to watch this happen.
That’s bad ass.
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