Wanna see a bridge blow up? The span I used to cross almost weekly when I was growing up, the Jamestown Bridge, was partially demolished today. The rickety thing was built in 1940, and its replacement was finished in 1992, long after the old bridge should have been replaced.
It connected the Rhode Island mainland to Conanicut Island (known as Jamestown), in Narragansett Bay. On the opposite side of Jamestown is the Pell Bridge, which connects to Newport.
Oh, and your (federal) tax dollars are paying for most of the blast.
