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From the tweet embedded in TFA: "The bridge was built to Canadian Bridge Standards and unfortunately something under the riverbed failed, that could not have b
by mturmon 8y ago
From the tweet embedded in TFA:
"The bridge was built to Canadian Bridge Standards and unfortunately something under the riverbed failed, that could not have been anticipated.
This caused the pier to sink and the middle span to fall off the pier cap and into the river. "
- throwaway5250 8y ago> that could not have been anticipated Whew! For a moment there, I thought it might have failed due to poor engineering, [sic] that could be corrected in the future.
- m-p-3 8y agoSo something in the riverbed failed now, but that didn't seem to be an issue for the previous bridge that was there for ~50 years. I can't reject the possibility, but that seems oddly timed.