News Jul 26, 2012 at 4:00 am

Mayor Adams Slams Last-Minute Changes to Sellwood Bridge Design

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1
"prone-to-collapse"? How many times has the Sellwood bridge fallen down?
2
The asym design looks safer with the divider between the cars and the foot/bike traffic... Was that value engineered out of the sym design?
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Disastronaut, the original Sellwood bridge has one of the lowest safety assessments of any bridge of that capacity in the entire US. The department of transportation examined it and recommended it be replaced immediately or be shut down. When it was first put up some 85 years ago, they cut corners on the cost and passed that burden onto us now.
4
The bridge has collapsed zero times; therefore it cannot collapse. Any money spent on it is arguably a complete waste and better suited to building SUV paths or weekly garbage pickup.
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"Prone to collapse" implies a precedence of catastrophic failure; I am unaware of the Sellwood Bridge falling down at at anytime in the past.
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Prone: 1. Likely to or liable to suffer from, do, or experience something, typically something regrettable or unwelcome.
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Are you guys structural engineers? No? Then shut the fuck up.
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Look out, we got ourselves a internet badass up in this bitch!
9
Sellewood Bridge had fallen down, fallen down, fallen down...

No wait that's not it.

Sellewood Bridge will be falling down, falling down, fallin... WTF? London Bridge is falling...

WAIT! What question would Frank Cassano have for all of this bridge B.S.?
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I like the illustration.

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