http://www.dtonline.org/vle/mod/lesson/view.php?id=276
Disadvantages: typically more expensive than other types of bridge, except suspension bridges
Sounds more like the bridge was built badly than the design was bad... I’m still missing on this one...
If you are likely to be hit with all sorts of rapid temperature shifts, with the ground and the air cooling at different rates, and major gusts accompanying the air masses causing the shifts, I imagine that the calculations for all possible scenarios would be quite complex, with the cables introducing an additional level of complexity.
I suspect that it was a poor design choice for the location’s weather.