Oops.
Posted on 03/15/2018 1:49:43 PM PDT by grundle
London Bridge fell down. Now a brand new bridge falls down and kills people. I think a really big investigation of the builder of the bridge is next, to determine if he cut corners and pocketed the money.
Willing to bet it was built by illegal alien labor
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Who knows but it’s true their work is not so good.
We always here about their “hard work” but it’s usually crappy.
Notice how the politicians, i.e. Scumbag Sniveler Scott, immediately huddle with other politicians, the mayor & police chief, rather than talking to people who might actually know what’s going on and what possible points of failure are being investigated. You know, people that speak in a language politicians will never understand, or at least, not since Herbert Hoover since he was actually an engineer.
I guarantee there is already somebody on that site that knows exactly where it went wrong and probably tried to point it out. It happened on 9/11 when FBI reports of Muslim students at pilot training centers were ignored and again when some tried to report the shooter at Parkland High School long before the incident only to get the cold shoulder from agencies tasked with responding.
Wow. I’m not trying to sound callous, but it appears the bar for what qualifies as a national tragedy has recently been reset lower than the limbo pole at a Caribbean street festival.
Must've been designed by a guy like the Richard Chamberlain character whose faulty electrical contracting led to The Towering Inferno.
Shoddy design isn’t likely to be the problem here. There are usually many eyes on the design process, especially in the design of a bridge structure.
Were any Muslims seen nearby?
I know I'll sleep better tonight now that I've been made aware that their approach was innovative.
That’s what I suspect.
Oops.
Check the original thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3639940/posts
Some lunatic decided to put the walkway up before the support towers were constructed. There were no cables supporting the span, just a concrete span over an active highway.
.. and very probably more that aren’t visible from photos so far.
Not to mention that the scene looks very unstable - like moving the downed debris is gonna cause big shifting problems with what’s still up in the air.
A horrible mess that’ll doubtless be traced to a massive fustercluck somewhere in the process . . .
Uh oh. Put another incident in the engineering historical studies of how not to design things.
-Takoma Narrows
-Comet
-KC hotel Hanging balconies
-FIU ped bridge
President of the university had pronounced at the bridge’s dedication last weekend that his school was all about “student safety and building bridges in the community” - typical high-aspiration/low-attainment BS coming off of our university campuses these days.....
Yes. It looks like there was no support in the middle only the sides. They just set the bridge section on Saturday but I don’t see the cables.
Why so heavy? A lighter bridge could be made of aluminum or even steel.
I might agree if I hadn't spent the past 20-years involved in construction management on YUGE mine projects. You, as was I, would be amazed.
Oh good grief!
I was just amazed that he got that key word in that presser.
He gets a bonus check!
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