Posted on 03/25/2022 11:53:17 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
HOUSTON - The Harris County Toll Road Authority now has an expensive plan to fix design flaws in its billion-dollar replacement of the Ship Channel Bridge.
The original structure was finished in 1982. But, with just two lanes in each direction and no shoulder for emergencies, construction on a replacement was started in 2018.
HCTRA’s Executive Director Roberto Trevino was hired after flaws were discovered in the design, and he says the danger could have been catastrophic.
"It could have collapsed," he says.
Trevino says the county wanted the new bridge to be sleek and iconic, resembling the Fred Hartman Bridge on Highway 146, with massive concrete pylons supporting eight lanes of traffic. The problems start with those partially-built pylons, that were determined unlikely to be able to handle the load.
Warnings were raised when a pedestrian bridge, near Miami, collapsed and killed six people, in 2018. It was designed by the same firm responsible for the Ship Channel design, FIGG Bridge Engineers, and work was halted two years ago pending an independent review.
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Warnings were raised when a pedestrian bridge, near Miami, collapsed and killed six people, in 2018. It was designed by the same firm responsible for the Ship Channel design,
The hired people more worried about appearances and making a statement, than basic engineering.
Utterly astonishing incompetence.
This is gonna happen on a larger scale with the bay bridge in SF. CAL TRANS went cheap and used chinese steel. They weren’t even done with the bridge when they were finding rust. The bridge will have nowhere near the lifespan it is suppose to have.
Union salaries
As long as the bridge is accessible to all people of all colors, sexes and perversions whether they actually live to make it to the other side is not important.
FIGG Bridge Engineers has a lot of chic and “inclusive” (aka, stupid) engineers.
No feel.
The bridge in Corpus is also messed up.
They also had a problem with the large bolts that hold the supports together. It turns out that even though the bolts were made in the USA, they were made from galvanized steel, which doesn’t play well with salt air. I don’t know how that one was resolved; hopefully, they replaced them with something more durable.
I had posted earlier this week that this is becoming the entire agenda of the Democrat Party along with some Republicans. NOTHING matters but the homosexual/trans/etc. agenda. Nothing.
When I read the headline I wondered if FIGG had something to do with it. Man, chicks.
Which bridge?
Toll authorities are hotbeds of corruption everywhere.
I think that would have been a bad thing.
# Utterly astonishing incompetence.
And they are be rewarded for it by handing them more money to waste, and another trip to the graft bar.
If they want a bridge like the Hartman bridge just copy it and move on.
Politicians, skilled in wasting money.
“they were made from galvanized steel, which doesn’t play well with salt air.”
Galvanizing is a coating for steel. It’s composed of zinc which is deposited over the steel. Bolts are not made of zinc. Properly applied it will resist salt air quite well for some time.
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Why Sheldon don’t like Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqMueg6ljSY
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