You’re really stretching there. Trump U diploma is not good on paper. I don’t know about structural engineering, but Trump’s constructions have good architecture.

It was supposed to just”look” like a suspension bridge, but not really “be” a suspension bridge.

The “huge” 950 ton concrete and steel structure with a 174 foot span had cracks develop soon after its inauguration, but they were not considered serious enough for the watch dogs of the project to act to protect the public and divert traffic while the problem was studied.

We don’t yet know whether or not anyone was monitoring the dimensional stability of the structure with something more technically sophisticated than eyeballs or tape measures, you know, things from the age of coal.

Nobody had enough creative imagination to realize that the span was in a fairly rapid (geologically speaking ) state of collapse.

The design of the structure looked really really hinky to anyone with actual hands on real life experience with real life stuff. But theoretically, on paper, it was really really good. Just like a Trump University diploma.

RickA, the bridge was working fine when it was built.

Also, as a side note, we had the option of including a great public transit thingie with the new replacement bridge, but the Republicans nixed it because they hate the planet.

dean:

The I35 bridge was being maintained. In fact it was the repair vehicles weight, combined with the too small originally installed gusset plates which caused the collapse.

I think it is just a bit off the mark to blame republicans or Governor Pawlenty for the bridge collapse.

But that is just my personal opinion.

Yeah, the notion that the military “suffered mightily” under President Obama is just another lie (all too successful, unfortunately) spread by the right because, well, President Obama wasn’t white so it was impossible for him to do anything the correct way. The fact that it was stronger than ever before when Trump took over is meaningless — just as the facts that the economy was (and had been) growing when Trump took over was overlooked. The modern right is completely empty of integrity.

Even you should be intelligent to realize that infrastructure needs to be maintained.

Really?

Are you sure it wasn’t Karl F. Rolvaag’s bridge?

He was governor when it was built.