Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist
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Florida bridge collapse

A brand new (not even opened yet) pedestrian bridge at a university in Florida collapsed early today. There are numerous rumors about why it collapsed circulating, which include "it was placed temporarily, waiting for the final central support to be put in." But the bridge was in fact supposed to be ready to go.

From the looks of the photos however, it appears to me that it was a common core design, with stylistic rather than working truss members. If an old schooler had built this, all the columns between the top and bottom sections would have been in perfectly symmetrical V shapes, rather than what we have here.

And if you look at the first and second ones in from the left, they provided absolutely no strength, and that is where the bridge failed. It is a mystery how this ever got approved, it means the bridge architects and engineers were unilaterally incompetent, with fully incompetent state inspectors, the entire decision chain at the company, state, and local level was completely incompetent. This should have been rejected the second it hit the state inspector's desk.

The woman in the black car on the far left in the photo below said she heard pieces of the bridge falling on her car, and then suddenly the back seat was gone. This cinches it, the bridge failed right where the trusses were so stylized they did not provide any support at all, and after failing at that point (total failure preceeded by falling pieces as the bridge started to split up), it pulled itself off the support on the right side of the road.

This is common core pure and simple folks, here we have the two photos that prove it. This bridge was designed to look "good" on paper, with no consideration whatsoever given to engineering at all. All you have to do is look at the top picture and you can clearly see why this bridge failed. It could not possibly be any more clear why giving advantage to certain groups of people in college should not be allowed, because it allows dangerous diplomas to be issued to people who never really qualified at all.

Fashion over form, with no care at all given to form!

Yes, but all those "angry white males" were stupid. Change is good!