When I was growing up, we lived on West 42 nd Street in a newish suburb near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. They called the bridge “Galloping Gertie” before it failed and collapsed spectacularly ...

This twisting stressed the bridge until the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed. By assuming no vertical movement from wind, the engineers didn't study how parts of the bridge would flutter in the ...

Neither option was ever implemented because just five days later, on November 7, 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed. The bridge comes down As luck would have it, at 11:00 a.m. on that ...

What lessons should we draw from Schroeder’s writing ... to a suspension bridge that was built across the Tacoma Narrows, a strait in the Puget Sound in the state of Washington. The bridge collapsed ...

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is another Grit City landmark. It was nicknamed Galloping Gertie in the ‘40s due to the way it violently swayed in the wind…which eventually led to its collapse. After the ...

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge will have two eastbound lanes close overnight from Gig Harbor to Tacoma. The two right lanes will ...

The closure goes into effect Thursday until further notice, according to the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife.

Two right lanes of the eastbound bridge will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Saturday for cleaning, according to an X ...

Two right lanes of the eastbound Tacoma Narrows Bridge from Gig Harbor to Tacoma will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday, May 9 to 4 a.m. Friday, May 10, 2025, according to the Washington State ...