Condo development was big reason for bridge ... -- DaveVT 03/17/2018 5:08PM
One positive from the video.... -- Vienna_Hokie 03/17/2018 12:55PM
And the school bus missed it. Sad for anyone hurt but im glad the school -- HokieNLot11 03/17/2018 1:06PM
It appears to fail at the lift point of left crane, not end support -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 10:28AM
That would be a placement/tieing issue in my head, though it could still be -- thankbud 03/17/2018 12:08PM
Watch the AeV video below ** -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 12:09PM
Idiots. So the movers were allowed to cantelever the span without it -- thankbud 03/17/2018 12:45PM
Poor communication between design and construction. -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 12:50PM
This is another reminder of why I need to get a dash cam... -- USN_Hokie 03/17/2018 09:43AM
Must be a hoot as a co-worker/peer ** -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 10:46AM
Kind of like a NSFW Steve Irwin. ** -- StressHokie 03/19/2018 11:53AM
Can only give one like -- TomTurkey 03/19/2018 12:04PM
Does not compute. ** -- USN_Hokie 03/17/2018 2:42PM
His demeanor, language and final comment ** -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 2:54PM
Pretty sure he works/worked in the mining industry. ** -- USN_Hokie 03/17/2018 5:10PM
I like him. I got pretty salty as I got more fed up with management. ** -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 5:55PM
I have a Garmin dashcam 55 -- MEHOKIE 03/17/2018 10:06AM
And the "[member] in the vise" comment ** -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 10:50AM
I shudder at the thought of that school bus being several cars ahead. ** -- Major Kong 03/17/2018 09:27AM
I have a dumb non-engineer question. The model of the bridge showed -- Tuckahokie 03/17/2018 09:23AM
That's exactly what I thought, initially. -- StressHokie 03/19/2018 11:23AM
What I’ve seen so far is that the bridge structure that collapsed was only -- hokie-c 03/17/2018 11:55AM
KC was an installation change that doubled the tension in the rod assembly -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 12:46PM
IIRC, didn't the undocumented change place the support in single shear vs -- 81_Hokie 03/17/2018 9:00PM
That's right. I got it reversed. ** -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 9:15PM
Yep ** -- hokie-c 03/17/2018 8:26PM
There were also more people on that walkway than it was originally intended -- Tafkam Hokie 03/17/2018 2:21PM
Looking like a construction SNAFU -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 2:22PM
It was also an unbalanced span length -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 10:04AM
Not a double truss too - just middle of the bridge -- DaveVT 03/17/2018 1:42PM
Pic -- DaveVT 03/17/2018 5:15PM
Looks cool, alright. Sheesh! -- TomTurkey 03/17/2018 1:48PM
For some reason they installed it bass ackwards. -- Hokie CPA 03/17/2018 09:47AM
Photo of collapse point while failing -- DaveVT 03/17/2018 09:05AM
Those cars looked stopped at a light. How horrible... ** -- EDGEMAN 03/17/2018 09:08AM