I don’t know why people keep saying CYA is going on. We are very straight-forward around here. Just because people would be CYA somewhere else, or in other circumstances, doesn’t mean it’s happening here. I think everyone involved is doing their honest best to give information to reporters in a timely and accurate manner. That’s how we do things around here. It shows in how people responded when it happened. You didn’t have people running around histerically in helplessness. People calmly assessed what happened and jumped in to help others get out of harm’s way.
Expert saying that engineers did not consider fatigue to be an issue with bridges before the late 1960s. They were obviously wrong. Truckloads over time contributes, and temps may be an issue over time as well.