[ShepherdsDog]

it didn't happen in Ontarihole so it doesn't count.

[housewife]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Depending on the size of the span, a bridge layer may not be long enough. Even if it was, I wouldn't trust civvies to drive over them without killing themselves (half the time we weren't allowed to use them).

That said, the army does have bridging capabilities that could probably cover that span, it'd take more than a day to build though.

It's going to take a while to fix the old one or the new one or what ever they will be doing. And your right you couldn't trust civvies to drive over... They would get real pissy if an MSC op took their wheel and made them shuttle over but it would be dam funny to watch.

[herbie]

$1:

BC is at risk for Earthquakes so it makes sense to spend that much.

Convince us. We're all convinced there must be 10,000 hearings over three generations in fancy hotels with lobster dinners then an absurdly high toll to cover the 5 billion already spent...

[martin14]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

$1:

While Sandro Perruzza, CEO of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE), cautions it’s early in the investigation, he noted the engineers for the project are based in Spain.

“It’s all speculation at this point,” he said.

“The engineering company that was hired to do this is based out of Spain, so do they have the experience and knowledge to design a bridge in the cold weather we have in Canada that they don’t have in southern Europe?” he said in a phone interview Monday.

Engineering giant Ferrovial, based in Madrid and part of the same company that owns Hwy. 407, was responsible for the engineering. The $106-million project is the first cable-stayed bridge in Canada.

I'm sorry, this is just a poor attempt at deflection. Ferrovial has over 60,000 employees
all over the world.

[DrCaleb]

BRAH BRAH:

It doesn't take much for something to go wrong, even after the bridge is built.

That failure was due to wind shear as well. The bridge is still under construction.

[housewife]

Here’s hoping this will be an election issue. Not a lot of info and big surprise no real numbers on cost or who’s paying for it. Which leads me to believe it’s the Ontario tax payers again

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/on ... -1.3758876

[BeaverFever]

Well the article says negotiations with the contractor responsible are still underway which is why there’s no final number yet.

[Sunnyways]

I’d like to see the TCH become a federal responsibility. It’s a pretend highway really, composed of bits of roads. There should be one set of standards and one speed limit on the whole thing.

[housewife]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Well the article says negotiations with the contractor responsible are still underway which is why there’s no final number yet.

The article also said...

$1:

NDP transportation critic Wayne Gates said the public has a right to know the additional costs and the company awarded the project should be paying.

"They should be responsible for any of the cost at all," he said. "Whether it's $8 to $12 million or whether it's $30 million, taxpayers shouldn't pay a penny for this."

Progressive Conservative critic Michael Harris said he would have expected negotiations about repair costs to have been done before repairs began, and not 16 months later.

"I think anybody, you or I, are building a house or doing a renovation, we try to get those costs agreed to up front," he said. "It seems this government negotiates completely backwards."

I agree with both parties on this. And I would think the same no matter who was in Queen's Park. I really don't think that any taxpayers money should be fixing this. When a contractor, builder, designer F's up they should be on the hook to fix it. The bridge lasted 42 days that was a big huge F up and we shouldn't have to pay for it to be fixed.