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In reply to the discussion: Please stop about the pedestrian bridge collapse [View all]Blue_Adept
(6,439 posts)You see it with plane crashes or the big conspiracy theory things for events that are clearly understood.
There's nothing I can do in regards to this event except to learn. It was interesting reading about the accelerated process through a few media outlets having seen it done here last year in Boston when a section of the highway was built off site and then put into place in a day. It was a fascinating project and hearing that there've been 800 of these done so far across the country raised my interest even more, because it does make a lot of sense. There are projects that will always be done "in the moment" and can't be done off site. Even my small town had its one bridge built off site, though it required months of breakdown of the previous one and putting in all the proper supports for the new one. I loved watching that thing roll through town and getting prepped.
Engineers have to account for a billion variables and as we see, the majority of the time it comes up aces. Nobody knows what the point of failure here was yet, just like in a plane crash or a train crash. But the speculators and "couch experts" know all and infect others with their "knowledge."
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