The head of the state civil defense office, Enrique Clemente, told the Milenio television station that about eight people were injured, many with broken bones. Secretary Chao has been closely monitoring the situation and has been in contact with Governor Scott, Senator Rubio, Senator Nelson and Congressman Diaz-Balart as well as Mark Rosenberg, President of Florida International University.Local officials, including city council members, fell about 10 feet (3 meters) onto rocks and boulders in the streambed.Ĭuauhtémoc Blanco, the governor of Morelos state, where Cuernavaca is located, said the wife of Mayor José Luis Urióstegui and reporters were among those on the bridge when it fell. Secretary Chao dispatched the Federal Highway Administration Division office to the site to assist NTSB with their investigation. Other Funds – Florida International University TIGER grant recipients are responsible for the actual planning, design, construction and maintenance of their projects. Through our role as a partner in the federal/state partnership, USDOT can provide various types of technical support to its partners when asked. As is required of all federally-aided projects, the FHWA conducted an environmental review, which resulted in a “categorical exclusion” – which means there was no environmental impact anticipated with this project.
The contract was awarded to Florida International University. UTCs work with regional, state, local and tribal transportation agencies to help find solutions to challenges that directly impact their communities and affect the efficiency of the nation’s transportation system. For more information, link here.įlorida International University is a University Transportation Center, which makes it eligible for specialized federal funding related to the safe, efficient and environmentally sound movement of goods and people. ABC is the use of prefabricated road and bridge elements as a means to improve worker safety and overall quality, and reduce inconvenience to the public. The pedestrian bridge is a design-build project and used Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC), a construction method which has been widely used for more than two decades by the industry. The pedestrian bridge was still under construction and not open to pedestrian traffic. on March 15, 2018, the pedestrian bridge tragically collapsed. It was erected on Mawhen the main span was lifted from temporary supports and rotated 90 degrees across an eight-lane road.
The pedestrian bridge was intended to improve pedestrian safety and to link the City of Sweetwater with FIU over the heavily traveled US 41. The 2013 TIGER grant agreement was awarded on June 5, 2014, and amended on January 12, 2016, and again on December 11, 2017. Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant in 2013. The FIU Pedestrian Bridge is one part of a multi-modal, pedestrian-orientated improvement project called the University City Prosperity Project, which was awarded $11.4 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT’s) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Division office is on site to assist the NTSB with their investigation. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is currently investigating the cause of the collapse. On March 15, a 174-foot-long, 950-ton pedestrian bridge connecting Florida International University (FIU) to Sweetwater, Florida, collapsed during its construction.
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