Something very strange is happening to bridges in the US—the third incident in 7 days… The siege is ongoing and extremely dangerous
(revolver.news)
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A major artery between Providence and Cape Cod has been partially closed since December.
What's weird is, they said a new-to-the-job young engineer discovered the deterioration and damage. Sooo you mean to tell me none of the experienced guys bothered to look at this stuff over the past 5-10 years? Or were they told to ignore it hoping something like this would happen.
More likely they were told it was "okay for now." "Now" tends to go on for decades as Department of Transportation (state & federal) have budget priorities fixed on de-automotivating society. NASA did that for a long time with the space shuttle external tank foam shedding, until the Columbia disaster, whereupon they went "Oops." Boeing released the MCAS software on the 737 MAX without testing it in a critical failure scenario. "It's only a minor code rewrite." All these people knew better, but had no integrity in the face of kicking the can down the road. Simple human lapses of judgment and character, not a conspiracy.