This week, in my local area of Wiesbaden....final plans were supposed to be 'whipped' up for the toppling of the local A66 autobahn bridge (Salzbachtalbrücke). For those not familiar with the bridge....it's been around for forty years and is a key autobahn bridge in the region....also allowing almost all railway traffic to go beneath it, and allowing the flow of traffic into the city of Wiesbaden.
A couple of months ago....some assessment occurred, and the shock came to a blunt level....the bridge was fairly close to collapsing. So it's been closed since then, and created a lot of turmoil in the area (railway operations are marginally working in the city presently and autobahn travel is hampered to the max).
So yesterday, the demolition date got pushed back....to early November. Various safety issues lingered.
This is the third bridge 'mess' of the region in the past four years. Oddly, if you were looking for a topic that most locals will engage in and question almost weekly....bridges tend to be one of the top twenty topics.
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