Difference between revisions of "35W"

Revision as of 04:07, 2 August 2007

This is a page to share information about the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

You may contribute/edit text and links or upload images and files.

For discussion, including sharing opinions, please join and use the Minneapolis Issues Forum.

How You Can Help

• Red Cross - What You Can Do?

News

• StarTribune Coverage
  • 7 Dead, 35 Injured, 20 missing ...
• Minnesota Public Radio

• Google News - Latest - Relevant

At 9:10 PM Mayor Rybak reported 6 confirmed dead. All known survivors have been removed from the bridge. All construction workers that were working on the bridge have been accounted for, except one(?).

Pictures

Upload them to Flickr and tag them "mpls35W".

• 35W pictures
• Geotagged Photos at Flickr - (none yet, 8:47 PM Aug 1, 2007)
• WCCO TV Slideshow
• MPR Pictures
• John Weeks I-35 Bridge Profile and pre-collapse Pictures

Video

• 35W video

Upload them to YouTube and tag them "mpls35W".

Maps

• Google Map - the 35W logo is the epicenter.
• Ariel Photo of Bridge Before Collapse

Government

• City of Minneapolis News
• 511 MNDOT Traffic Conditions
• MNDOT Fatigue Evaluation of the Deck Truss of Bridge 9340 - 11MB, download via StarTribune

More

• Wikipedia Story on 35W Collapse and I-35W Bridge profile
• John Weeks I-35 Bridge Profile and Pictures
• Blog Posts - Via Google Blog Search

Help Edit

If you witnessed or were part of the disaster you may add a page with your personal story. Use a name like "35W Tom Smith story".

This site works just like Wikipedia - see their help on how to edit a page. You can create a page by simply typing something like - http://pages.e-democracy.org/35W_Tom_Smith_story - note the underscores "_" instead of spaces. (Note when you edit a page, it suggests an error on the top line. Just ignore that and type in the "captcha" and press return to confirm you edit.