Part of my job I think is to bridge that gap between the status quo and what we know we have to do for our future.
BARACK OBAMA, New York Times, Apr. 28, 2009
“And I’ve hire the Tacoma Narrows team to build that bridge.”
Part of my job I think is to bridge that gap between the status quo and what we know we have to do for our future.
BARACK OBAMA, New York Times, Apr. 28, 2009
“And I’ve hire the Tacoma Narrows team to build that bridge.”
Well he qualifies as being dumb as a piece of wood.
Trivia: the original design for the Tacoma Narrows bridge was extensively tested in a wind tunnel to prevent just that result. When the state changed the design to save money, they decided that they didn’t need to retest despite the protests of the civil engineers.
What other large public project have we seen in recent weeks that was taken live without enough testing only to fall apart?
@2 James: Slow clap. I didn’t know about the wind tunnel testing nor the design change.
(Also the Kansas City hotel disaster: We’ll change from one long rod to two rods; two is better, right? Oops, scissors).
…A bridge too far?