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> Bridges stopped failing when engineers were held responsible. Oh did they? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E2%80%93present https:

• josefx 6y ago
  > Oh did they? First one only sagged, no catastrophic failure, no deaths, no injuries. A few more on that list were over a hundred years old. Not sure when he started holding engineers responsible. Then you have the bridges rammed by ships, terrorism, construction accidents, a wooden suspension bridge in the middle of nowhere that had an upper limit of three and was used by seventy, etc. . Seems as if the bridges themselves have held up fairly well.
  • tpmx 6y ago
    Perhaps a less conservative bridge development culture would have resulted in more innovative bridges that could have avoided those incidents?
    • klyrs 6y ago
      History shows that less conservative bridge culture will reduce costs at the detriment of safety.