Loading ...Another example of depression era make work projects. And over doing it besides. Supposedly it was factory built to save time and money, and delivered to the job site to be assembled and avoid traffic tie ups. “When ever you try to save you lose” and “haste makes waste” “We always get what we try to resist” Mr.C 1966.
Parts of story:
Giménez raised the possibility that a “stress test” of the 950-ton bridge section was underway Thursday afternoon when the structure pancaked onto at least eight cars on the roadway below.
construction workers were tightening internal cables when the incident occurred.
“This is a different design type of bridge,”
It was built under a method called accelerated bridge construction,
The 174-foot section of walkway had been installed in six hours on Saturday, but the entire bridge project wasn’t due to open until 2019
When finished, the $14.2 million bridge would have been supported from above, with a tall, off-center tower and cables attached to it. That tower had not yet been installed, and it was unclear what builders had been using as temporary supports.
The stress test process is “very, very dangerous,” Wang said, (So why didn’t anybody block off the traffic first? Dimwits? Mr.C)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-did-miami-bridge-collapse-more-one-reason-likely-n857371