Posted By: www.finance-commerce.com
By Mark Anderson
Whatever caused one of the 18 cables supporting the Martin Olav Sabo Bridge to break on Sunday night eluded bridge examiners just six months before when they conducted a major on-site review. That test was completed on the Sabo bridge in September, but the engineers discovered no signs of weakness. “There were no red flags, nothing to raise any alarms at all,” said Mike Kennedy, director of transportation maintenance and repair for the city of Minneapolis.
City engineers and consultants from the local office of San Francisco-based URS, the engineering company that designed the bridge, have been at the site since the single cable broke on Sunday, Kennedy said. “Our engineers are trying to identify what happened and what the next step should be. But it’s too early to speculate on what went wrong.” Read Full Article Here
