{"id":10720,"date":"2010-08-23T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/minnpost-bigboxcar-biking-home-on-river\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T23:19:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:19:19","slug":"minnpost-bigboxcar-biking-home-on-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/minnpost-bigboxcar-biking-home-on-river\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10720 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/minnpost-bigboxcar-biking-home-on-river\/attachment\/10721\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LlVaKdCpEnx8zy8jcDEETuIxo1_640.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LlVaKdCpEnx8zy8jcDEETuIxo1_640.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LlVaKdCpEnx8zy8jcDEETuIxo1_640.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LlVaKdCpEnx8zy8jcDEETuIxo1_640.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnpost.tumblr.com\/post\/998523532\/bigboxcar-biking-home-on-river-road-stopped-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minnpost<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t.bigboxcar.com\/post\/112922117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bigboxcar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Biking home on river road, stopped to see the old 35W bridge parts. This one could be a piece of art for a memorial, maybe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Steve Berg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/steveberg\/2010\/08\/23\/20797\/whatever_happens_with_memorial_garden_dont_hide_all_of_the_i-35w_bridge_wreckage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has a similar idea<\/a>, after hearing news that MnDOT will soon cut up and transport the pieces of bridge wreckage from its fenced-off resting place at Bohemian Flats on the West Bank to a site in Afton:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My nomination for locating this stark piece of public art is an empty lot at the north end of the bridge, at University and 10th Avenue S.E. Everyone crossing the new bridge could see a remnant of the old one. No one could forget the horrible events of August 1, 2007, or the heroic rescue of survivors, or the absolute shock that such a thing could happen in a supposedly advanced country. And no one could fail to see the consequences of neglecting basic infrastructure, a topic too boring for most people to care about.<\/p>\n<p>[T]ransporting all of the wreckage \u201cout of sight, out of mind\u201d satisfies an opposite political impulse, one that suggests that the bridge collapse was just a random act of fate, a \u201cnatural disaster\u201d best forgotten. Any governor with an eye on the White House, for example, might try extra hard to get the bridge pieces crated up and carted away to a remote hiding place. All those memories would be systematically disremembered: no recollection of badly designed gusset plates and buckled chords, of inadequate inspections and postponed repairs, of a MnDOT politicized by an unprofessional (at the time) commissioner, of repeated opposition to raising the revenue required for bridge repairs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/steveberg\/2010\/08\/23\/20797\/whatever_happens_with_memorial_garden_dont_hide_all_of_the_i-35w_bridge_wreckage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more from Berg here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good post by Berg. Seriously! Minnesota artists should create art out of the wreckage for a 35W memorial. I&rsquo;d think <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerart.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Walker<\/a> or other local artists and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mayorrtrybak\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor R.T. Rybak<\/a> could get this done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>minnpost: bigboxcar: Biking home on river road, stopped to see the old 35W bridge parts. This one could be a piece of art for a memorial, maybe. Steve Berg has a similar idea, after hearing news that MnDOT will soon cut up and transport the pieces of bridge wreckage from its fenced-off resting place at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3025,243],"class_list":["post-10720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-35w-bridge","tag-art","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10722,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions\/10722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}