Posted on 03/15/2018 11:32:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Florida International University’s massive new pedestrian bridge collapsed Thursday afternoon in West Miami-Dade.
The bridge, located at 109th Ave and 8th Street, collapsed on a number of cars.
There are reports of numerous people injured in the collapse. At least one person was taken as a trauma alert to the hospital, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
The 950-ton bridge went up on Saturday. It was then lowered into its final position, just west of 109th Avenue that day.
The main span was built next to Southwest 8th Street.
I’m reminded of a recent incident up in Washington State. A young family was driving down the road and part of a bridge being worked on fell on their car. They never knew what hit them. Husband, wife, and infant killed instantly.
The only blessing here is that these people likely would have had no idea what hit them.
WSVN has live coverage. Video is awful. First responders still in rescue mode.
Nothing. Just concrete.................
Its normal procedure to reroute vehicular traffic where there’s on-going construction in progress.
Why wasn’t it followed?
Or it was China steel.
4 visible in this shot. Who knows how many more can’t be seen.
I bet there was a surveillance camera in the area that caught the collapse.
Neither link is accessible to me. I’m not a FB member, and the FIGG website refuses to load.
The more I look at this, the more I wonder how the heck so many people could think it’s okay to remove the shoring from a suspension bridge before the suspension is installed. Gross negligence to the extent of criminal negligence. People need to go to jail for this.
1 INTRODUCTION
This report documents the criteria for the analysis and design of the signature pedestrian bridge and access structures. The pedestrian bridge is a new crossing spanning over SW 8th Street. The design criteria in this report are a general guidance for the design of the architectural and structural elements.1.1 Architectural Vision
Located on the west side of the intersection of SW 8th Street and 109th Avenue, the FIU pedestrian bridge will serve as a critical piece of infrastructure to allow safe student transit across one of the region’s busiest highways (60,000 Annual Average Daily Traffic). While safety is of the utmost importance, providing the students and public at large with a bridge that will encourage and sustain its use is of equal value.
Safety is #1. Oops.
Both gone. Didn’t take long.
Try this for MCM. I double-pasted that link.
https://www.facebook.com/WeAreMCM
The FIGG Bridge site loaded for me when I first found it. It probably can’t handle all the traffic right now.
Notice, there was NO CENTER SUPPORT AT ALL!....................
Thats the Tamiami Trail! Lots of traffic all the time.
NO REBAR AT ALL....................
What in flaming Hell does THAT mean...
I would think they would have done a scale model test (real world, not digital) before building the design.
Whichever company built this and the engineers who worked on it are about to penniless, and rightfully so.
They should also go to prison if negligence can be proven.
JMO
GMTA! My sister has taught math to middle schoolers for 40 years. She has seen this SH!T creep into the standard math curricula for decades and she always fights it. I was SHOCKED when I saw that engineering schools were succumbing to this crap. This outcome was inevitable.
Try this. I double-pasted the link by mistake.
MCM actually posted a statement on their FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/WeAreMCM
I think that bridge identifies as a sidewalk. No idea what pronouns it prefers, however.
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