Well, since they decided to eliminate the center tower from which the cables play out, there wasn't any need for the stays, right? The cables can't just hang from thin air, eh?
Designed and built by the Humpty Dumpty Engineerettes Company. < /s >
(Sigh)
A few posts back, there is a quote from some engineer that said the bridge is really just a truss bridge, with the elements already in place to support it. The tower and the long diagonals were just for show. (So this guy says....)
If so - that seems really stupid too. Like the 1% or whatever it is that has to be spent on art-work at some of these jobs. At the Sea-Tac (Seattle) third runway (finished a few years ago) there is a retaining wall with millions of dollars worth of engravings on the wall - eagles, killer whales, mountains, etc.
It is along a back service road in the restricted area. The closest the public can get to it are some residential roads on the far side of the airport. You can get peeks of it through the trees. It is still about 500 feet away though.