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  1. 03-15-2018, 14:39 #1
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    Default Miami Bridge Collapse

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    I've been watching the coverage. There is some speculation that the bridge was being stress tested. Somebody screwed up and people died.

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    Don't I have a right to feel safe driving home?! Bridges are dangeroys, tunnels are much safer. I'm going to protest poor bridge design and walkout of work Friday afternoon.
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    It sucks that there was a traffic signal that had one direction of traffic lined up under the bridge.

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    It fell off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kidicarus13 View Post
    Don't I have a right to feel safe driving home?! Bridges are dangeroys, tunnels are much safer. I'm going to protest poor bridge design and walkout of work Friday afternoon.
    Don't do your walk out under a bridge.
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    More people have been killed by bridges today than by AR15's.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Gman View Post
    I've been watching the coverage. There is some speculation that the bridge was being stress tested. Somebody screwed up and people died.
    Why wasn't the road closed while the stress test took place? Don't these people think about the possibilities?
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    Sadly these types of tragedies have happened before and will happen again. Our legislators and engineers have blood on their hands because they refuse to learn and take our safety seriously.

    I was commuting on this road when this happened back in 1989. I guess you can say that I am a survivor of this tragedy so my feelings are far more important than anyone else's knowledge about mechanical engineering or physics. My feelz!!!!!

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