Yeah it's pretty saddening and I'm wondering if there are any still trapped in their cars. Also wondering what they will find on the resulting investigation. Would any of our bridge folks know if this was a unique type of ABC?
I'm curious about this as well. Very sad for all involved. Hopefully there is enough investigation into this that the information can help ensure it doesn't happen again. There was a flaw somewhere. Materials, methods, or design.
That's agreeable. Innovation comes at a cost and you NEVER want it to be what happened in this case. That's gotta be a 150 ft span or more. Now, there are a lot of assumption from the viewers perspective at this point, but I was reading on Linkedin earlier and some accusations and finger pointing was just primitive and at this point from what I can see I can only ask why there was stressing going on 5 days after installation.saw a news story this AM that the contractor was tightening the cables on the bridge just before it collapsed? Have built a lot of different ped bridges over the years but have never seen this style.
It looks like there was a large enough median for a center support on the roadway so they could have easily spanned this with a typical concrete girder bridge instead of whatever type bridge this was that was used? i.e. "the old fashioned way"
Center support may have been left out to maintan sight distances as well as an architectural feature to maintain the modern look of a bridge from the future.saw a news story this AM that the contractor was tightening the cables on the bridge just before it collapsed? Have built a lot of different ped bridges over the years but have never seen this style.
It looks like there was a large enough median for a center support on the roadway so they could have easily spanned this with a typical concrete girder bridge instead of whatever type bridge this was that was used? i.e. "the old fashioned way"
The released part of that voicemail: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/17/us/florida-miami-bridge-collapse/index.html
