Possible cause for the Bridge Collapse?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but a bridge is nothing you want to cut corners on.

 

I'm down in the area daily and it is a massive project.

Seeing a deer on the Mendota bridge would not be fun...

 

This is even scarier than a deer on the Mendota Bridge.

I-35W bridge wasn't alone in the way it failed

The story references a bridge failure in Ohio in 1996.

The similarities between the I-35W collapse and the Ohio bridge problem are uncanny. Not only were both 1960s-era steel truss bridges that carried a major freeway, both had contractors on the bridge doing work at the time of the failure. And both were rated structurally deficient.

The Ohio bridge's gusset plates were seven-sixteenths of an inch thick - almost the same size as the I-35W bridge's half-inch plates.

And the NTSB is saying the 35W Bridge Collapse was one of a kind?

 

At 3 a.m., at the tail end of an 11-hour drive... it was even scarier.

 

Was it deer season?

 

Here is an article on working on the bridge in winter. (Today we'll be lucky if it tops 0):
http://www.startribune.com/local/13910981.html

And apparently, it's cow season on 494:
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_8015290?source=rv

 

But bridges are built so you can cut corners to get from Point A to Point B easier.

 

http://www.startribune.com/local/13910981.html

I'm sorry, but what a shitty headline. People died, for crying out loud.