A heavily traveled segment of Interstate 95 remains closed indefinitely in Philadelphia after an overpass section collapsed on Sunday following a fiery tanker truck crash. Pennsylvania's transportation officials will probably draw lessons learned from a similar incident in Atlanta in 2017.
. MARTA showed a ridership increase of nearly 25% and an 80% increase in Breeze Card sales. Businesses in the area saw a 90% drop in traffic., a grassroots organization whose goal is to help improve Atlanta’s mass transit system, gathered volunteers over the weekend to post up at some of the busiest stations and stops around the service area to guide first-time riders.
Restrictions were also put into place to help prevent commuters from cutting through some of the nearby residential neighborhoods. GDOT officials said in addition to the collapsed span, two other northbound spans and three southbound spans were damaged to the point of needing immediate replacement. It was a total of 350-feet northbound and 350-feet southbound spans which needed replacement along the viaduct.
After only 43 days, the busy highway reopened all northbound lanes. The next day, all southbound lanes reopened. What officials thought would take 10 weeks took only six.Investigators determined the fire under the overpass was set intentionally. The fire, which began with a chair on a shopping cart, ended up sparking a fire with plastic and fiberglass tubing stored in spools under the section of the viaduct by the Georgia Department of Transportation.
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