Maybe that is why the bridge came down, because it only took 4 years to build and the building standards from the 70s are very different from the safety measures used now?
I am guessing this is going to surprise you but new bridges build protections around the pillars so that any accident like this hit the protection instead of the pillars.
And you obviously have not seen protective pillars around the main bridge pillar, this is not science fiction, hundreds of bridges around the World already have this. Anyway you will see them in 10 years if you are to lazy to use a search engine.
Maybe that is why the bridge came down, because it only took 4 years to build and the building standards from the 70s are very different from the safety measures used now?
Did you miss the part where a cargo ship hit it?
I am guessing this is going to surprise you but new bridges build protections around the pillars so that any accident like this hit the protection instead of the pillars.
Do you understand the kinetic forces involved in that kind of impact?
And you obviously have not seen protective pillars around the main bridge pillar, this is not science fiction, hundreds of bridges around the World already have this. Anyway you will see them in 10 years if you are to lazy to use a search engine.
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