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Originally Posted by UncleWede
^ Additionally, I saw a student on interview complaining that you should work on a bridge AT ALL while traffic is flowing. Were that the case, there is a lot of traffic that is going to be disrupted to allow all the continuing bridge repair that must be done. Can we not have traffic on Golden Gate since they are painting and checking those cables (or any other similar suspension bridge?)
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Most likely, Golden Gate Bridge (like Hoover Dam) over engineered as most things built during that time were, because of lack of computing power on forces acting against each other (human mind could not explore all the possibilities of stress).
If not, temporary cables would be attached to support weight while another cable is replaced.
This bridge was placed in position, but had not been “installed”.
Again, cable on crane is most likely culprit according to eyewitnesses on site in Cars short of intersection when collapse happened, not bridge failure.