Affirmative action engineering.
Jury is still out on whether it was a design or construction problem.
That's a great moniker and more politically acceptable than the engineering term we used to use years ago.
A student was struck by a car and killed a year or so ago so they built the pedestrian bridge - for $40 million! Then even more people were killed. Please, let’s let government solve all our problems. What could possibly go wrong?
Affirmative action engineering.
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You beat me to it.
Hubris leads to debris. Design flaw and/or materials/methods.