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theres month old photos taken of the bridge being shared by my cousins on facebook

good lord

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my bad ... those pictures are of another bridge along that same roadway
 

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[QUOTE="Bloody Brian Burke, post: 12022863, member: 8136"]Doesn't necessarily show anything bad, either. There's still a shit ton of reinforcing inside that structure. They're designed expecting eventual corrosion.[/QUOTE]
Very true but will get escalated now due to this collapse.
 

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Doesn't necessarily show anything bad, either. There's still a shit ton of reinforcing inside that structure. They're designed expecting eventual corrosion.

Yah it seems that was the govt line in their press release when it made local news there (savona - 75 km from Genoa) ... not structural ... just cosmetic

but todays events will certainly lead to some public hysteria

/theres some reinforcing not inside that structure too
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[QUOTE="Bloody Brian Burke, post: 12022863, member: 8136"]Doesn't necessarily show anything bad, either. There's still a shit ton of reinforcing inside that structure. They're designed expecting eventual corrosion.
Very true but will get escalated now due to this collapse.[/QUOTE]
They have a lot of investigating to do here, for sure. Structures are capable of failing due to design flaws but I've found with bridge failures it's usually something humans did after the fact that cause failure and the resto work that was going on probably led to something.
 

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Very true but will get escalated now due to this collapse.
They have a lot of investigating to do here, for sure. Structures are capable of failing due to design flaws but I've found with bridge failures it's usually something humans did after the fact that cause failure and the resto work that was going on probably led to something.[/QUOTE]

Yep totally agree with you and per what has been reported it seems to be the case here. I am just amazed even with the warnings back in 2016 (not sure if it was before or after the repairs) that this wasn't escalated more. Makes me wonder if they were escalated prior but obviously a horrible oversight post repairs.
 

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Yah it seems that was the govt line in their press release when it made local news there (savona - 75 km from Genoa) ... not structural ... just cosmetic

but todays events will certainly lead to some public hysteria

/theres some reinforcing not inside that structure too
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Yeah that rebar at the bottom is more what caught my eye lol. Even if it's harmless, like, shit, pick it up.

It's like when chunks of concrete fall off the Gardiner here - people always get concerned for the roadway and that it may collapse but really the only danger to anybody is of the actual concrete falling onto a car or pedestrian. I really can't think of a collapse of any kind, bridge or building, caused because a support pillar or column gave out due to reinforcing failure. It's usually the decking becoming detached or caving for some reason.

The only instance I can think of was this one in Portugal in 2001 but it was caused by unrestricted sand extraction from the river bed that destabilized the footings (along with some ignored engineers inspection reports in the years before it happened):

BBC News | EUROPE | Portugal bridge collapse 'kills 70'

I saw that bridge with my own eyes a few months after it collapsed. It's surreal to just see dangling roadway. The river current was so fast they found bodies in France.
 

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Yeah that rebar at the bottom is more what caught my eye lol. Even if it's harmless, like, shit, pick it up.

It's like when chunks of concrete fall off the Gardiner here - people always get concerned for the roadway and that it may collapse but really the only danger to anybody is of the actual concrete falling onto a car or pedestrian. I really can't think of a collapse of any kind, bridge or building, caused because a support pillar or column gave out due to reinforcing failure. It's usually the decking becoming detached or caving for some reason.

The only instance I can think of was this one in Portugal in 2001 but it was caused by unrestricted sand extraction from the river bed that destabilized the footings (along with some ignored engineers inspection reports in the years before it happened):

BBC News | EUROPE | Portugal bridge collapse 'kills 70'

I saw that bridge with my own eyes a few months after it collapsed. It's surreal to just see dangling roadway. The river current was so fast they found bodies in France.

This is why the old Greenfield bridge in Pittsburgh had the bridge under the bridge to catch all the cement.

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Yep totally agree with you and per what has been reported it seems to be the case here. I am just amazed even with the warnings back in 2016 (not sure if it was before or after the repairs) that this wasn't escalated more. Makes me wonder if they were escalated prior but obviously a horrible oversight post repairs.

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He's too busy fighting with Omarosa to notice...

 

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i fell asleep with the tv on in the bedroom and woke up in the middle of the night and an infomercial for real estate flipping seminars hosted by a reality tv "star" was on and it seemed very similar to what you see at a trump rally ... only thing missing was overt racism :noidea:

If they wanna flip those houses they got to up the racist ante.
 

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He's too busy fighting with Omarosa to notice...


i think he'll only show some concern if the fire comes close to his course in Rancho Palos Verdes
 
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