These are hardly Super Bowl numbers, but they are, at least, Denver Nuggets victory parade livestream numbers. The highest simultaneous viewership has been a little more than 3,300, not counting the tens of thousands of views on YouTube feeds hosted by local and national news sites. Since a few hours after going live, at least 2,000 people have been watching the construction livestream each time we’ve checked in during business hours. You won’t regret it,” he wrote on Twitter.Īnd, well: The governor has been proven correct. The Pennsylvania governor, for his part, remained steadfast in his belief that the people of the Delaware Valley would love to watch concrete harden. “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.
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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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