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Yeah I saw. It’s going to be awhile before they can remove all the rubble. I can’t even imagine the panic of peiole that haven’t gotten texts back ls from loved ones.
Had to be a huge design blunder, or in a hurry to get it done. What is troublesome they were bragging that the whole bridge was put in place in a few hours on Saturday.
I wonder how the hell can something like this even come close to happening.
There were without a doubt multiple levels of incompetence at work. Someone screwed up somewhere, and their reviewer screwed up and didn't catch it, and THEIR reviewer screwed up and didn't catch it. Generally something like this doesn't happen because of only one person's failure.
According to this article this bridge was built offsite and brought to the site in large pieces(looks like 1 huge piece to me) to avoid working over the road(good idea), a new method for bridge building. The problem is it's unstable until they secure it in place.
I read too a quote from Marco Rubio saying that the engineers ordered the cables to be tightened and once that happened, the bridge collapsed.
There is a fallacy of increased scrutiny by adding reviewers - actually the opposite happens
Not sure what you mean. At some point additional review levels are useless, but they are necessary to a point.
As an engineer, I get frustrated by demands to make things happen NOW. Trouble is, created materials (e.g., anything made with concrete) does not abide by your artificial schedule. Corners get cut in the name of expediency. A lot of times, it's customer service people are trying to curry favor with big pocketed customer to try and expedite the process and keep them happy.
A certain number of reviews are necessary; we're talking about N+3 numbers of layers that aren't helpful.
I drive over the Zilwaukee Bridge a few times a year going to Northern Michigan...every time I am on it I almost have a panic attack. It just does not seem stable. In the winter the bridge is like an ice rink..I just try and stay in the middle lanes.
I have been there..my wife put a blanket over her head.The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel near Norfolk, VA thinks that bridge is short.
When we go north to our cottage with our friends in the summers we have to always stop before zilwaukee and mackinaw so my buddy can switch seats and let his wife drive those.
