All this talk of bridge safety these days reminds me of some photos I took for a post about the Memorial Bridge a while back. While repairs were underway for a couple of the piers, I spotted this nasty business along the west end of the bridge:

This is the stuff that they were NOT fixing. I don’t know if this has been addressed since Lunda fenced off the area surrounding the bridge, but it makes me nervous every time I take my family across it. Sure, they fixed the parts of the piers over the river which were turning to rubble, but even a cursory inspection of the rest of the bridge gave me some pretty scary photos.

The new bridge is expected to open in late 2009 if I remember correctly…hopefully they’re taking care of the old bridge in the mean time!