They wrote it in crayon on the windshield, but somebody licked it off.

Former Army brat and US Marine here.

My money is in the design wasn’t stable enough in the “freestanding” mode (as it was during construction) versus the “cable stayed” (final) mode. It seems to me that the struts (especially those two near the places where the bridge broke) had to work in traction and compression, depending on if the cables were…

Hindsight is 20/20. Concrete cracks all the time with a structure is settling. The true strength comes from the steel reinforcement. If anything I’d wager that something was assembled incorrectly, the builder cheaped out on materials, or the engineer fucked up his free body diagram.

It was at least one worker.

The latest video I’ve seen - a dashcam with fairly clear view of the whole span, shows that a crane on the left side was doing something on top of what appears to be the initial point of destruction.

He’s the best. I wish he didn’t have this content to make a video about but he hits the nail square most every time.

Good job spreading the word, AVE is awesome, all jalopners should be sub’d to him

I have a feeling this will be one of those cases future engineers learn about in class.

I was gonna go with something about arming teachers, but this is better.

I am getting sick of hearing teachers complain about buying supplies. You try to be nice and have a Black Hawk drop them right on the school but they still find something wrong. God, get a real job.

Quick, someone send that driver a Jalopnik sticker, and a hood with a cougar that says “me”!

the most punchable faces

Everything you said is proven wrong in the road race series.

penske is great at employing drivers with punchable faces

Danica: I’m unsponsored

You clearly have not watched much NASCAR.

nascar drivers are usually good people, except Keselowski, fuck that guy

And yet when I look up the value of mine on KBB it comes up - no exaggeration - $260.

Everyone pays too much money for a used Subaru.