Philly has MAJOR traffic problem: I-95 collapse closes both directions for MONTHS?
Holy mackeral.
Guess there are a bunch of folks working from home for a while longer.
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Portion of Interstate 95 collapses in Philadelphia after tanker fire burns under overpass
A tractor trailer fire started under an I-95 overpass and spread to the lanes above. By6abc Digital Staff WPVI logo Sunday, June 11, 2023 10:57AM Portion of I-95 collapses in Philadelphia after tanker fire
The fire broke out just before 6:30 a.m. on Cottman Avenue, right underneath the I-95 overpass. EMBED <>More Videos <iframe width="476" height="267" src="https://6abc.com/video/embed/?pid=13369158" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
The fire broke out just before 6:30 a.m. on Cottman Avenue, right underneath the I-95 overpass.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Multiple lanes of Interstate 95 northbound in Philadelphia have collapsed after a tanker truck fire erupted underneath an overpass.
The fire broke out just before 6:30 a.m. on the off-ramp to Cottman Avenue, right underneath I-95, in the Tacony section of the city.
Video from Chopper 6 on Sunday morning showed the northbound lanes of the highway were reduced to rubble.
Chopper 6 files over a portion of Interstate 95 northbound that collapsed after a tanker fire.
The southbound lanes are also compromised, officials said.
All lanes of the highway are shut down between the Woodhaven and Aramingo exits.
There has been no word on any injuries or if any other vehicles were involved.
Watch raw video from the Action Cam of a fire under an I-95 overpass in the Tacony section of Philadelphia that led to a partial collapse of the highway.
Crews are working to get the fire under control. It's not yet known what was inside the tanker truck, or why it caught fire.
Manholes have been exploding in the area because of the fire. Everyone is being asked to avoid the scene.
Fire officials provided an update after a tanker fire caused a portion of I-95 north to collapse in Philadelphia's Tacony section on June 11, 2023.
Officials say the extent of the damage means this is a situation that will impact the region for a long time to come.
"Today's going to be a long day. Obviously, with 95 northbound gone and southbound questionable, it's going to be even longer," Dominick Mireles, the director of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management.
Multiple agencies are involved in the response to the crash, with some expressing concern regarding the runoff due to the proximity to the Delaware River.
Officials are treating the accident as a hazmat situation. Health officials will determine the environmental impact.
Check the latest conditions on area highways at 6abc.com/Traffic
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June 11, 2023, 10:25 AM
PASig
Good Lord, I know that stretch of I-95 well, it’s right near my Aunt and cousin’s neighborhood in Northeast Philly.
Detouring through that area is going to be an absolute clusterfuck.
And knowing just how slow and corrupt Philadelphia is if they are saying months, it’s going to be like a year or longer.
June 11, 2023, 11:26 AM
Pale Horse
A few years ago a bridge on I-85 in Atlanta collapsed sitting down traffic both ways for 43 days.
It sucked, but the city offered a few million in incentives for the construction company to finish early and the section reopened a couple months before the original estimates. Hopefully they can do the same up there.
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June 11, 2023, 11:34 AM
gearhounds
I-95 is the east coast’s most important artery; they will get it fixed as fast as humanly possible. This won’t be a pork project that takes a long time to complete.
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The crossroad overpass wasn't such a big deal. Major inconvenience: Yeah. But I-75? In that location? What a mess.
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June 11, 2023, 12:32 PM
Cookster
I hope that city officials are competent enough to work with food and other retail wholesalers to triage the necessity of essential goods needed to support the population and work out alternative delivery routes that will cause the least amount of havoc and gridlock.
I think a situation like this can go sideways very quickly.
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June 11, 2023, 12:35 PM
Balzé Halzé
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Originally posted by gearhounds: I-95 is the east coast’s most important artery; they will get it fixed as fast as humanly possible. This won’t be a pork project that takes a long time to complete.
Yeah, when they really want to, it's amazing how fast these construction crews can get shit done.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, an elevated section of highway collapsed in 2007 for the exact same reason here, a tanker truck fire.
Assuming it would take months to rebuild, the new bridge actually opened just 25 days after the accident. The $5 million in bonuses offered by completing the job by a certain date certainly helped move things along.
I'm just glad this incident in Philly didn't happen near Southeast Philadelphia closer to the airport.
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June 11, 2023, 01:01 PM
PASig
quote:
Originally posted by gearhounds: I-95 is the east coast’s most important artery; they will get it fixed as fast as humanly possible. This won’t be a pork project that takes a long time to complete.
Yeah…but you’re dealing with PennDOT and Philly.
It will take forever. It takes PennDOT 18-24 months to replace simple bridges over small creeks around here. It’s all unionized and they DGAF who they’re inconveniencing.
June 11, 2023, 01:03 PM
stoic-one
Well crap, I'm headed up there next week, and that is on my route to my customers location... sigh.
Originally posted by stoic-one: …and that is on my route to my customers location... sigh.
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June 11, 2023, 01:29 PM
Patriot
It’s happened before in Philly…
The great tire fire of 1996…
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June 11, 2023, 05:34 PM
cas
I watched a few seconds of the news video to remind me why I don't watch the news.
(Side rant: We need to have this girl go stand out in traffic and tell you things, things that I could have told you sitting here. It's to try to lend some validity to what we do. Pleas continue to pretend it's 1955 and that we're actual journalists)
June 13, 2023, 02:25 PM
PASig
So this crash happened where I-95 runs over the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia (Northeast Philly) and I've already seen videos of cars inching along detoured through that neighborhood, I would NOT want to live there over the next year or so I think it will take them to fix this as you will be barely able to get in and out of your street due to the sheer volume.
Originally posted by PASig: Detouring through that area is going to be an absolute clusterfuck.
It has made the traffic on 295 3x as bad as it usually is. I already hated driving 295 before this.
June 13, 2023, 03:06 PM
flashguy
We seem to have a rash of truck fires destroying Interstates. It almost seems part of a conspiracy--almost.
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June 13, 2023, 03:38 PM
cas
I said something along those lines to someone yesterday, it would make a good type of "annoyance terrorism".
June 13, 2023, 04:26 PM
wrightd
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Originally posted by gearhounds: I-95 is the east coast’s most important artery; they will get it fixed as fast as humanly possible. This won’t be a pork project that takes a long time to complete.
It will be an xtra-super-porky project that will get done after an appropriate amount of delays proportional to the level of incompetence in the govt agencies responsbile. Or something like that. sooner is not soon enough in this case, what an unfortunate pita.
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June 13, 2023, 04:55 PM
parabellum
quote:
Originally posted by flashguy: We seem to have a rash of truck fires destroying Interstates. It almost seems part of a conspiracy--almost.
Stop
June 13, 2023, 06:40 PM
flashguy
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
quote:
Originally posted by flashguy: We seem to have a rash of truck fires destroying Interstates. It almost seems part of a conspiracy--almost.
Stop
Noted.
flashguy
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June 13, 2023, 07:52 PM
spunk639
quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
quote:
Originally posted by gearhounds: I-95 is the east coast’s most important artery; they will get it fixed as fast as humanly possible. This won’t be a pork project that takes a long time to complete.
Yeah…but you’re dealing with PennDOT and Philly.
It will take forever. It takes PennDOT 18-24 months to replace simple bridges over small creeks around here. It’s all unionized and they DGAF who they’re inconveniencing.
Not just Pennsylvania, Massachusetts has had some major closures, Williams Tunnel Ceiling collapse I90, the union stronghold on the state governments in the North East make any project longer and costlier.
I said something along those lines to someone yesterday, it would make a good type of "annoyance terrorism".