MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 8 — Investigators have found what may be a design flaw in the bridge that collapsed here a week ago, in the steel parts that connect girders, raising safety concerns for other bridges around the country, federal officials said on Wednesday.
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If those who designed the bridge in 1964 miscalculated the loads and used metal parts that were too weak for the job, it would recast the national debate that has emerged since the collapse a week ago, about whether enough attention has been paid to maintenance, and raises the possibility that the bridge was structurally deficient from the day it opened. It does not explain, however, why the bridge stood for 40 years before collapsing.
Oh thank God, it actually was their fault! The world is now righted on it's axis and the sun once again rises in the east:
If there was a design error in the 1960s, failure to identify it before the bridge collapse indicates a problem with the federal inspection program, said Thomas M. Downs, who was the associate administrator of the Federal Highway Administration from 1978 to 1980.
source: NY Times
It's just amazing how far back their perfidy stretches. This bridge was designed in 1964, but I bet that Bush had faulty slide rules distributed to all the engineers in the US so that when his presidency was in trouble he could count on something like this to bail him out. After all his grandfather was a Nazi and his dad was head of the CIA it would have been easy for him to do. Pretty amazing foresight for an 18 year old.
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