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My advice to the guy for screwing up the Dyck Memorial Bridge. Oh, here I almost forgot to include my advice to the Dyck.
Posted by: man tom | May 15, 2022 at 03:42 PM
To be replaced by the Dyck Memorial Bridge Memorial Bridge.
Posted by: Sharkmime | May 15, 2022 at 03:55 PM
It appears that the Dyck Memorial Bridge will have to be re-erected.
Posted by: pharmaross | May 15, 2022 at 05:24 PM
I think the cold Canadian river water caused the Dyck bridge pilings to shrink.
Posted by: Elaine Benes | May 15, 2022 at 05:41 PM
Many moons ago there was a tv program called Captain Nice. In one epsiode an unscrupulous contractor replaced the concrete in a bridge with oatmeal. Made a marvelous sound when the mayor cut the ribbon and it dropped into a river.
Posted by: The Squirrel Whiperer | May 15, 2022 at 06:31 PM
Have you heard that really convoluted metaphor about poorly constructed bridges?
It's hard to get across.
Posted by: PirateBoy | May 15, 2022 at 06:54 PM
RM administrator, in a public forum: "We don't need this bridge."
Well, the administrator got his wish, just not how it was expected.
This story gives one such a comfortable feeling when you fly in an airplane build by the low bidder, doesn't it?
Posted by: Le Petomane | May 15, 2022 at 07:06 PM
Good thing no one was hurt. When I was growing up in Vancouver, B.C., my parents told me about the June 17, 1958 collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge while it was under construction. Apparently it was an engineering miscalculation, and 19 were killed. Singer Stompin’ Tom Connors sang about it in the "Bridge Came Tumbling Down":
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b8swvCGH3B4
Posted by: B&C | May 15, 2022 at 07:43 PM
Could have been worse.
Posted by: wanderer2575 | May 15, 2022 at 11:28 PM
Surprise: the engineer didn't know what substrate he was building on.
How many people know the soil type under their house, or ask about it before buying?
It's time to study some dirty books.
Posted by: Ralph | May 16, 2022 at 08:35 AM
I've been 35 years in the construction business. That engineer is in heap-big doo-doo.
I was once involved in a project where we did do soil borings, but missed a deposit of peat moss under one corner of the building. After a year that corner had sunk eight inches. Everybody sued everybody. It was lots of fun.
Posted by: Gustav A. Honkentooter | May 16, 2022 at 10:10 AM
Did they try putting viagra in the support columns, but can't they just replace it with the Dyck Memorial Ferry?
Posted by: David Puddy | May 16, 2022 at 04:24 PM