Until governments all over the nation take notice and start undergoing maintenance of roads and utilities the country is going to continue to literally collapse. This is not ok.
bleachsanchoblastk - The corrupt politicians in Harrisburg diverted $4.5 billion collected in gas taxes that were earmarked for road and bridge maintenance and instead diverted it to the state police to shore up their salaries, pensions, and benefits. Until politicians are prosecuted criminally, this pilfering of money earmarked for transportation infrastructure will continue.
What I saw was the last inspection report show the bridge was in poor condition. My guess is this will show large amount of corruption in the town that has prevented this bridge from being serviced and the money was miss appropriated.
Take notice. This is what misappropriated tax money looks like. When we pay tax for the maintenance of our infrastructure, is it going where it should? Could this be an alarming wake-up call for missing tax funds, and the consequences that are possible for it? Alongside the investigation by the NTSB (thank you for your hard work), we should expect to see a flow of financial assets that were allocated for this bridge and many others. Failing to see any financial assets allocated to bridge repairs is going to raise concerns for taxation, and the confidence in this city's officials is expected to decline.
@@texhunter1820 The guy was breaking out in a sweat, he was struggling so hard to keep it together for 20 minutes. His eyes were rolling back in his head. Whether it’s his back, or his hip, or sciatica, he really needed a chair or something. He needed that cane so bad, he couldn’t even put his mask back on a second time.
It would be helpful if the NTSB was as well funded as a military project since the safety of our national infrastructure is critical to homeland safety.
If I’m not mistaken, somewhere in the vehicle code requires the speed to be set at 35mph, however it is very rare to have a vehicle cross that bridge under forty, especially a pat bus. I’d say fifty or fifty five is the norm.
I’d Mt more concerned with its weight limit of 26 tons - the tandem bus that was caught in the collapse weighs almost that much by itself! That bridge has traffic jams with busses like that plus tons of vehicles .
@@EstorilEm Bridge weight limits are stated so that a continuous stream of that weight vehicle would be safe on the bridge. In other words, since this bridge weight limit was 26 tons, you should be able to pack that bridge safely with 26 ton vehicles, end to end in all lanes.
Didn't a citizen who was walking in Frick Park - under the bridge, a few months prior to the collapse - concerned about what he saw, photograph a totally corroded diagonal support component, and send it to what he believed was/is an appropriate government office/agency, where it was determined that immediate attention to the bridge was not necessary? Shouldn't the government person/people who made that determination be somehow held accountable? Do you think that the old adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" applies?
Oh and yeah, they have chairs that you can sit upon that will make it so that you are as high up as someone who is just standing. No excuse to make this man suffer. I say this as someone who doesn't need a cane but damn well needs a chair sooner than it looks like I do. Hard to see masses on the bottom of my feet with my nice shoes on.
They're going to dwell over this crumbled bridge for months instead of focusing on other bridges structures to make sure they don't suffer the same fate...
That’s not their job, they respond to accidents and issue findings. The state and federal transportation agencies are responsible for the maintenance of the structures.
The original design of the bridge was flawed the pillars holding up the bridge. The pillars were at an angle for support .there’s a reason to this arch design but it failed. It is not efficient to have the support beams placed at an angle to provide stability.
Roadsalt during the winter mate, that and the bridge was probably never designed to carry the loads placed upon it due to increased traffic loads.......Lack of maintenance too........... looks like it never got a lick of paint in it's life
Metallurgy, looking for fatigue cracking, and why the steel deteriorated so quickly, they can tell if the original contractor used incorrect steel, failed to treat it, etc.
Pro tip on masks the the fogging of one's glasses: You have to get the nose part so that no air is ejected upwards towards your glasses and/or pull the sides of the mask so that there is a small gap where your exhale can escape out the sides and not up toward your glasses.
