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Billion Dollar Bridge Project Stopped Half Way Through over Safety Concerns
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:18 am
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:18 am
All work on the new Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi, TX was put on hold and the company that designed and is building the bridge has been "suspended" from the project. This goes back to the pedestrian bridge that collapsed last year Florida, NTSB found the company had design flaws and shotty workmanship on that project. Good to see TxDot doing their job, better to catch issues now rather than waiting for a collapse, it will be interesting to see the outcome of all of this.
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Once complete it will be the longest cable stay bridge in the US.
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Once complete it will be the longest cable stay bridge in the US.
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Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:21 am to TxWadingFool
Over budget and under engineered. Not a good look.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:24 am to TxWadingFool
Should have done a study
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:25 am to TxWadingFool
quote:
"suspended"
ISWYDT
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:25 am to TxWadingFool
Weren't hey a "fair share" corporation?
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:27 am to TxWadingFool
LADOTD would've let it ride
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:28 am to TxWadingFool
That’s gonna create some good arse fishing when it collapses.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:28 am to Strannix
Fair share=MBE/DBE contractor?
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:32 am to TxWadingFool
quote:shoddy
shotty workmanship
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:33 am to Hogbit
My company is/was in negotiations with them to do some subcontractor work, that was one of the first questions they asked me in our first meeting.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:38 am to Hogbit
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Fair share=MBE/DBE contractor?
Yeah, it was a bunch of women in leadership/ownership positions. Six deaths and tens/hundreds of millions of dollars is a small price to pay for progress.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:39 am to TxWadingFool
China would just say "frick it" finish the project or else.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:40 am to Jim Rockford
quote:
"suspended"
ISWYDT
But, it's not.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:42 am to TxWadingFool
Came into the thread expecting something in Louisiana.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:43 am to THRILLHO
I fight that shite all the time. Its a disgustingly racist program.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:47 am to TxWadingFool
good looking bridge from the picture.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:57 am to Emteein
This looks like the similar bridge design that collapsed in Florida. A center support with cantilever design. There is a reason to have two supports on each side of a bridge in lieu of one center support. Well that's because it works!! Not to say this wont work but why go against what has shown to work for decades. It may look cool but to the eye it looks like a challenging structural design.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:59 am to upgrayedd
quote:LADOTD still would've needed another 10 years of studies before they started
LADOTD would've let it ride
Posted on 11/15/19 at 12:56 pm to tigbob
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There is a reason to have two supports on each side of a bridge in lieu of one center support.
There have been thousands of bridges supported by single column type piers. It does work perfectly well and has for decades. If your theory is how the world should work, then we should have rectangular steel boxes with 4 wheels as cars.
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It may look cool but to the eye it looks like a challenging structural design.
Wouldn't want to do anything challenging, would we? Hell, why even have that bridge? Build a road AROUND the harbor. MUCH less challenging and it works.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 1:20 pm to TxWadingFool
Will this connect Corpus to the Portland area?
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