"jim rozen" wrote in message
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In article ,
Ted
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Steel gratings are used on such bridges because it provides much less
roadway mass, a big help in designing an opening bridge. Personally,
I'd like to see more emphasis on raising the standards for driver
competence than attempting to engineer away all hazards. Driving is
*not* a right, and penalties for causing injury and death are laughably
light for drivers. The person who "lost control" and killed the
pedestrian was fined for careless driving. A better outcome would be to
confiscate the car, crush it, remove driving privileges and compensate
for the death. Saying "It was an accident" doesn't cut it.

Yep. And the driver in question paid for her stupidity in driving
disctracted (cell phone) by forfeiting her car. Best of all it
wasn't the state that confiscated it, but mr. Newton's laws!

Jim

I have a hunch her insurance company will bear the brunt of her
actions----unless her lane change lets them off the hook. There's bold
signs on the bridges advising that lane changes are not permitted. I've
driven the bridge on rare occasions. It's not exactly in our neighborhood,
but we get to Portland a few times each year.

Harold