![]() ![]() ![]() “Getting the girls together for drinks and a watch party,” laughed one Twitter user.Īnother commenter sarcastically mused that the gripping footage of men in hardhats talking to other men in hardhats would make for a good date night. The notion of a live construction feed quickly became an object of both bemused fascination and open mockery. Josh Shapiro announced the construction feed at an onsite media conference Wednesday, saying that the 24/7 live feed of road construction would “chart our progress and give everyone a sense of timing as we move forward.” Initially, many were skeptical anyone would want to watch a slow-moving interstate construction project. More: Watch the I-95 livestream as crews make repairs to collapsed highway in Philadelphia I-95 bridge collapse: What you need to know about the disaster in Philadelphia The next afternoon, footage of a rained-out freeway construction site handily bested the number of viewers for CBS News’ YouTube Live feed of a Texas tornado. Right now, as I type these words, a tab on my computer is tuned to grainy footage of three guys in raincoats walking toward an aerial work platform.Īt one point Thursday afternoon, more people watched a group of PennDOT construction workers stand near a big digger than were tuned in to a YouTube livestream of the Denver Nuggets victory parade. When I say “you” are watching, I also mean me. The feed of the bridge repair has become, perhaps improbably, quite popular. On Thursday morning, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation began a 24/7 livestream of the interstate repair: a first for the agency, a spokesperson said. ![]() On a totally unrelated note: Thousands of you, at any given moment, are apparently watching the livestream of I-95 repair in Northeast Philadelphia, a process that will likely take weeks or months.Ī section of the interstate collapsed Sunday, after a tanker truck caught fire underneath, killing the truck's driver and crippling one of the East Coast’s major arteries. Some, presumably, actually do watch paint dry. ![]()
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