The Largest Floating Bridge in the World Engineered by The Powering America Team

Our rapidly changing infrastructure is creating many jobs for the NECA/IBEW Powering America Team around North America, and one of those projects was the replacement of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, connecting Seattle to Bellevue in Washington State.
The new SR-520 Seattle Floating Bridge is 1.4 miles long, 6 lanes wide, and accommodates cars, HOVs, ride shares, buses, bikes, pedestrians, and soon a light rail system. This floating bridge is built for the future and will be used by future generations to come.

[@cphoover11]

wow im amazed at how little it explained about how this floating bridge works

[@bdawg7132]

It's just a woke piece for liberalism. Liberalism can shove it up its own anus

[@SterlingSimmons22]

Too much talking not enough showing of the bridge

[@KMVclassic]

Thank you! I agree

[@SkintoneChickenbone]

Drove on this bridge alot but never knew these facts.

[@sannewgen]

Perhaps you have still not realized how irritating is to listen to a bgm when someone speaks. What a pity

[@P2Tmedia]

How length adjustable if water level changes?

[@BigDaddy-vr2ut]

These guys are the real hero’s in this world. Not your movie stars or music bands. Someone with them minds, to put together something like this is brilliant. That dude was rude it really is a futuristic bridge

[@BigDaddy-vr2ut]

This would of been even cooler if you would of got the complete bridge footage driving threw the whole thing. And then took the drone over the water and got an out side shot of the bridge down the length of it ..

[@eric_d4073]

It terms of being informative - This ranks a zero. Absolutely no information about how the bridge "works" etc. Total waste of time

[@wb100radio]

I get to drive across this everyday

[@vegandestroyer3782]

woah u pay the toll everytime?

[@wb100radio]

@@vegandestroyer3782 toll is only for 520

[@elliottmcnear8516]

@@wb100radio this is 520

[@wb100radio]

@@elliottmcnear8516 right lol 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@olajiregbolu9936]

Learned everything about everything except how it is a floating bridge

[@silverstake88]

"Minority owned" -- a more acceptable form of discrimination, no? Definition of discrimination: "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability."

[@alcikelly2496]

Okay, I see what you're saying, but it's "minority-owned", not "minority-operated". That just means that the person that / the group of people who got together and started the company are minorities. There's probably a lot of cishet white guys on the team too (as we saw in the video), so don't worry! haha Anyhow, that specific argument is unfounded, but your overall comparison is also bunk in my opinion because of the history upon which affirmative action seeks to create equity. You define "discrimination" as actions that are "unjust", and while I am not debating your definition, I question why seeking to systematically right historical wrongs that have long-lasting effects would be regarded as "unjust". Your definition also points to "prejudice", and I would place this definition of "prejudice" in full view for context to your overarching definition in order to clear up the weight of these buzz words: "Prejudice" = "preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience" (according to Oxford Languages) So, what is the opinion / action that is not based on reason or actual experience? I understand where you're coming from as I've heard this debate play out in my family's living room countless times, but I challenge you to think about it like this: You've only been given one average meal a day for your entire life by Person X, while your neighbor has been given 3 big nutritious meals a day by Person X. You're emaciated and can't maintain a job or keep up your home because you don't have the stamina to perform these activities. You swing from one illness to another to another due to the decreased cardiovascular and immune function inherent to extended periods of malnutrition, and the doctor visits cost you a lot of money and time - again impacting your ability to hold a steady job. Your body is in survival mode, and your mind is too. You suffer from depression and anxiety, and while going to therapy does nothing to solve the underlying issue, it does help you to feel seen - for a price. Your low levels of success lead you to be looked down on by your neighbors, which only increases your depression and anxiety symptoms, and you even begin to subconsciously resent them in order to protect your mental-emotional state. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4951875/) Meanwhile, your neighbor has swapped out the grass in their yard for a flourishing garden, and you see them digging and pruning and watering out there every evening. Sometimes when you wake up early in the morning due to your gastrointestinal distress (again, inherent to malnutrition), you notice your neighbor jogging out your window with a couple of other people in the neighborhood. They've had barbecues and, after your neighbor hired a contractor to install an in-ground pool 8 years back, even pool parties. You hear the faint music and bursts of laughter sometimes through your thin windows as a bitterly chilled draft sweeps over you. 5 years ago, you noticed a really nice car had started parking out front on a regular basis, and you wondered if, in all their arrogance, they had bought themselves a second vehicle, but one night you saw that your neighbor was sharing a candlelit picnic in their garden with someone. Last month, you saw your neighbor and their partner cheering on a tiny little kid on a tricycle snaking their way back and forth on the sidewalk. You begin wishing that you had the energy to find and keep a partner, but you look around at your dusty, dirty house and realise that the flies are likely the only company you can keep long-term. This is a fractional and fictional bit (written quite poorly tbh) to display how far-reaching the effects of chronic systemic deficiency and abuse can be. If your ancestors were abused, you carry on the physiological effects, not to mention the direct effects that "nurture" will have on you and your children (i.e., hypervigilance - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127768/). If your ancestors were systemically robbed, you will need to have systemic protections in place to ensure equitable access to the tools of success, not usually even to negate the effects of being chronically robbed but to seek to dampen these effects so they are not as extreme. If the government has systematically deprived your ancestors of these tools for success, they will need to offer them tenfold to make up for the earnings gap and lost income from better jobs over the years in order to help PREVENT and undo prejudicial treatment of you and other minorities. I imagine this is going to be a stretch for you, since taking the position you've shared often overlaps with a lack of general empathy towards others (especially very "othered" others), a lack of insight / understanding toward macroeconomics, macrosociology, and nuance in general, and a lower reading capacity due to lack of interest in the role-switching inherent to reading or at least a rather narrow selection of reading materials. However, I would not have put forth this energy if I thought I was shouting into the void. If not you, perhaps someone else will glean something useful from this empathetic effort to unravel your diatribe. I don't care to assume that you are like everyone else I've engaged in debate with before, and I expect you to want to be your own thinker. I understand why you likely believed this - I get the surface-level rationale. I'm proposing that it is fundamentally flawed because it leaves out historical context. In a perfect world, you would be right. This is not that world. I'm not even arguing that I'm right. I'm arguing that I believe that I am right due to the information that I have sought out and has been presented to me thus far, and that perhaps your position could be strengthened by reasonable reevaluation. I would highly encourage you, if you take nothing else from this short essay I've written, to check this definition and article out: Definition (how I am seeking to enter this conversation): www.law.cornell.edu/wex/good_faith Article (something I try to work through often): hbr.org/2022/02/are-you-aware-of-your-biases.

[@epyxhmstr5717]

Love watching remote control toys car crushed under classic stiletto heel #ASMR 🥰

[@professoreggplant9985]

You lost me at minority owned.. Can we just focus on engineering because nobody cares what gender or race owns the company. This virtue signaling garbage is obnoxious!

[@mantis1s1k]

In addition to the licensing fees which are supposed to be used for projects like this, I'm so SO pleased it costs over $6 to drive across this marvel of engineering... each way. Screw this bridge.

[@YTN1112]

mantis1s1k it's a toll bridge, if you don't want to use that bridge, and since I know this area either 1. Take I-90 bridge, it's free 2. Go around south to south center, then go up on I-405 3. Go around North, and take I-405 south. Also, I don't mind the tolls, the state needs it.

[@silverstake88]

Right. You should get access to services free of charge....

[@HarryBalzak]

Diversity hires for bridge building...

[@drewwains1920]

like this bridge

[@Daniel_B_23]

Always with the minority crap!

[@bestvarnishpaintsideastech4578]

Wow cool👍👍👍

[@APRENDENDOCOMJESUS-x9w]

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[@alvinh1544]

Can u actually explain how does the bridge floats?!!!

[@adriellcabrera5643]

0:39 the old bridge was a drawbridge

[@tudorjason]

The old bridge had a draw-span in the center; it wasn't a drawbridge.

[@adriellcabrera5643]

@@tudorjason A drawbridge can be used as a general term used for a movable bridge but if you want to be exact it would actually be a retractable bridge. WSDOT used the W3-6 "Draw bridge" advance warning sign on the approach of the previous bridge.

[@APRENDENDOCOMJESUS-x9w]

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[@pauneisiam661]

How does it (the bridge length) adjust with the increased and decreased of water level. Generally Decreased in water level will expand the bridgee's length. Increased in water level may contract the bridge's length.

[@ralfralf5690]

Seattle is da best city in da world

[@dudetterose]

It's awesome but it's not as awesome as China's floating bridge :)

[@anchoragepaintinganddrywal1181]

🚣‍♀️

[@Ayokonggulay]

compared to floating bridge in china this is a piece of cake...

[@TriPham-xd9wk]

We can made 200 mile a span with parking then pull along and connect across ocean even

[@unclemony5939]

But how does the bride float?

What about the carbon generated by the cement used?

[@wealthofsocietywos9324]

I am trying to build a bridge like this

[@mohanakrishnan1150]

👍👍

[@TheDynamicEngineers]

just amazing

[@lemawuteye7615]

Well done

[@KMVclassic]

Not enough bridge. Need more bridge.

[@APRENDENDOCOMJESUS-x9w]

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[@ibrahimmwangi7909]

So great indeed

[@bestamerica]

' nice float bridge... but oh no no... dont need to pay fee toll over the float bridge... that dumb and real greeeedy... must be free free over the bridge anyday anytime

[@JTOTHEW3000]

CAN WE JUST STOP WITH THE MINORITY ETC BS...THESE ARE ALL AMERICANS AND TO KEEP THIS RHETORIC GOING IS DIVIDING US!

[@abdulhaki7652]

Great contruction population public very fluent bussiness👍🏿

[@rswow]

How can I float the narration over the music? I need the narration, but the (loud) music got in the way. I stopped watching it & disliked.

[@KeraLousGarden]

Floating? Where? China has actual floating bridges, this is just a bridge over water🙄.

[@us3south]

Kera Mommyof5 It has no supports and sits on pontoons, so yes, floating.

[@jasdancer20]

Not anchored to the ground below, so yes, floating

[@hydrolito]

The bottom is pontoons. So is floating.

[@husseininteligence6234]

Am in love with this reporter

[@acemany1126]

This is NOT a real floating bridge. KZbin china's floating bridge. It's the truth!!

[@kinger2005]

It is a pontoon bridge. Just because it isn't flexing like that flimsy Chinese bridge doesn't mean it isn't floating

[@Loady420]

The drone pilot the filmed this was reckless flying over all those vehicles none the less on a Highway. WSDOT shame shaaaaame

[@ElfRightsActivist]

No one cares you fucking boomer.

[@DutchRider]

Yeah, make something that floats, which is SOOO much smarter you know, no influence by increasing and decreasing water level, and also this soooo much connects bikers to peds to people in cars (because at other bridges they didn't had time for this) what a nonsense projects, look cool but that's all.

[@greasher926]

How are you going to drain such a huge lake, and why would you want to do that anyway? It’s 214 feet deep, with an average depth of 108ft and it’s surface elevation at only 16ft. Also this bridge is 7,710ft long, in comparison the longest suspension bridge Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan is 6,532 ft long

[@DutchRider]

​@@greasher926 aren't you the brightest one, you for sure get the Darwin award this year.

[@crIms0ngen]

Drive on this bridge all the time, it is a nice smooth ride, the previous floating bridge was smooth as well. The lake is too deep to easily reach and build the supports. Did you not watch the video? I feel you didn't watch. There are lots of regulation reviews, intense project planning, and designs that go through incredibly experience engineers. This isn't a new concept. They know what they're doing. You can move along.

[@DutchRider]

@@crIms0ngen Yes I did watch the video, 2 years ago.... o.0

[@wezbie]

Hahaha this is zo good, There more wamen in the world then men.

[@coronalight77]

Are you having a stroke?