You are right and looking back I can see where I might have made it seem that the definition of redundancy has changed it hasn’t.
I know that with the engineers I’ve worked with, the best ones are well past retirement age and are able to spot stuff that no software program could. However, I believe that there have been advances in the density of concrete as well as steel.
And regardless of what anyone says, nobody will convince me that it was impossible for the resurfacing to play a role in this.
At the risk of sounding insensitive, the insurance companies would PREFER this to be terrorism, because otherwise they are out hundreds of millions of dollars. So, multiple insurance companies will have their own experts there to try to pin the blame on someone else and they WILL NOT cover it up if it’s terrorism.
waggy, I think I would prefer this to be terrorism, rather than just some random bridge collapse. When I think of the hundreds of bridges built like this in the sixties and seventies, possibly with poor design and substandard materials, by unions rife with corruption and fraud...
that is scarier than one or two crazy mosque members with semtex.
Why? We have people here convinced some “accidents” were really terrorism - they think TERRORISM is being covered up!
Which actually has a bit more validity, I think - people love to beat on “evil companies”, excuse and protect Moslems, and also, the gov. might be concerned about mass hysteria. I think they’d rather cover up terrorism.