"Typically, breakdowns — bridge washouts, overpass collapses, dam breaches — must occur before politicians and voters react to need," one global infrastructure report observes.
It's the final tournament match the host city is due to stage, having made unwanted headlines late last week when an unfinished overpass collapsed about five kilometres from the Mineirão Stadium, killing two motorists and injuring 22 more more.
B1 Heavy Rains Lash Region Heavy rains lashed the New York area, snarling traffic and possibly causing part of an overpass to collapse into the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, hitting a van and injuring its driver, authorities said.
Reports of damage were limited, but an emergency official in Rancagua said a highway overpass had collapsed.
The overpass did not collapse, but the authorities closed an 11-mile section of Interstate 70 in Grand Junction, which is about 200 miles west of Denver.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31 — A freeway overpass under construction collapsed on Tuesday, injuring a road worker, trapping a truck driver for hours and snarling commuter traffic in the fast-growing area of Butte County, about 152 miles northeast of here.
Last Thursday, one of the stranger infrastructure debacles in recent American history saw a portion of a five-lane interstate overpass in Atlanta completely collapse after lighting on fire, somehow leaving not so much as a scratch on anyone.
The are four rails near the starting point of the stage that cause a tremors, grinding all four of them causes the overpass (or highway) to collapse.
The Santa Julia highway overpass located between Rancagua and Graneros collapsed, and part of the Pan-American highway was damaged.
The collapse of an overpass in Belo Horizonte, killing two people, was a reminder of the human cost of a last-minute construction dash that also cost the lives of eight workers battling to get the stadiums finished in time.
