Nassau Bridge is Falling Down

I am convinced that the southbound bridge from Paradise Island to Nassau is falling down. A few months ago, a ship hit the pilings protecting the pillars. In the picture below, the pillars had pilings and wooden beams protecting them. The ship hit the protective barrier and tore away the wooden beams. A segment of the bridge dropped about 6 inches (upper yellow arrow points to the joint that dropped).

A view of the torn away pilings is shown below in a picture that I took while standing on top of the bridge.

Below you can see the expansion plate that is at a weird angle and never closes. You can see the sea below.


I have to cross this bridge every day to go to work. I speed up a little bit, and make sure that I am not on the dropped span with a heavy truck. As you pass the expansion plate, the roadway sinks six inches and there is a bump.

If someday soon you read that a bridge in Nassau collapsed, remember that you read the prediction here first.