On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:40:16 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 3/16/2018 9:05 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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It was also stated it was not complete yet.* So what?* It should have
been properly secured and supported along the way.* Poor engineering.

Not necessarily the engineering if it was, indeed, construction; the
design may have been perfectly adequate. Where, precisely, the blame
belongs is at this point indeterminate and jumping to any conclusions
premature.

I've even heard both reported that it had been opened for pedestrian
traffic which would imply completion and that it was still
incomplete--so which was it? Clearly the newsfolk don't have all their
"facts" straight yet (as if they ever do) before rush to pontificate.
It was not open to pedestrian traffic from what was reported this
morning. It was not due to be opened until sometime mid-2019.

It had been raised into place within the last 6 days or so after
having been assembled alongside the highway.

My bet is on the contractor taking a shortcut not authorized by the
engineers - similar to what happened with a previous bridge failure in
Voirginia with the same contractor - and a "temporary bridge" at a
construction site which failed causing the death of at least one
worker.

This contractor should not be building bridges!!!