Closer Look: The Impact Of Atlanta’s I-85 Bridge Collapse

Friday on “Closer Look with Rose Scott and Jim Burress”:

• 0:00: Joel Baker, city of Atlanta fire chief talks about the Interstate 85 fire and bridge collapse;
• 23:05: Reporter Stephanie Stokes gives an update on a press conference with the Georgia Department of Transportation;
• 28:26: Keith Parker, MARTA CEO, talks us through how MARTA is preparing after the bridge collapse;
• 42:23: John Eaves, Fulton County Commission chairman, tells about what next for the I-85 collapse;
• 58:01: Ceasar Mitchell, Atlanta City Council president, discusses about the role the city of Atlanta will play in the next steps for I-85;
• 1:08:58: Photographer Chandler Packard gives a personal account of what he saw;
• 1:15:34: Keith Todd, public information officer for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s Department of Highways in District One and Two, gives a perspective of what happened when the Eggner’s Ferry bridge collapsed in Kentucky in 2012;
• 1:27:20: Tom Smith, Emory Goizueta Business School professor, examines how the collapse will affect Atlanta’s economy.

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