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GQP 28 Jan 2022, Probably: "WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING!? BIDEN BLEW UP THE BRIDGE TO MAKE HIS SPEECH LOOK BETTER!"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/us/pittsburgh-bridge-collapse-biden.html
December 2018 (there's no way in HELL that gap at the bottom of the vertical beam is normal or safe, btw. Rusted halfway through right there.)
#2's sauce
Dec 2020 before maintenance
Dec 2020 after maintenance. Notice the missing cross beams. (@alphastructural, u up?)
https://twitter.com/gpk320/status/1487099756644114435
So they removed the offending beam in #2. Arguably, because it was just floating there, it made the structure less sound as dead weight. The steel cable replacement on the other hand probably didn't have the compressive strength required.
Zapathasura
I work in infrastructure in the Netherlands and what I've heard and seen from the US just scares the shit out of me.
Cargobiker530
Well, it's a good thing republicans have voted against infrastructure spending in favor of making sure Bezos & Musk don't pay taxes.
BlueCanaryInTheOutletByTheLightSwitch
So one beam rusted right off, and they decided the fix was to attach a cable to the other rusted beam?
DrunkBobRoss
Mistakes were made.
Clockworkdancerobot
Maybe if they pandered more to Amazon to build a warehouse nearby they could be in even more debt.
YouWillNeverFindMe
Probably a $500k-1M fix before, now they need a brand new $5-15M bridge...
Idownvotegunnuts
Penn has a history of robbing their state roads funds to pay for State Police. From 2015-2020 they took >$4.5 billion from highway budget.