Schwarzenegger Saves $1.4 billion
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Lecture Notes: 10-01-04
Because of the leadership of the State’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the proposed bid to replace the Oakland Bay Bridge has been rejected, saving $1.4 billion on an unsafe design.
$1.4 billion was nearly lost attempting to build a cable stayed bridge to replace the Oakland Bay Bridge. The cable stayed design, where cables are not anchored at either end as in a suspension bridge, could not have withstood even a “small car bomb” according to a U. C. Berkeley Civil Engineering Professor, Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, who has previously consulted on the repairs of the existing bridge that was damaged in the 1989 Earthquake.( http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~astaneh/1-Services/SacLib-Index.htm).
In reporting on this story the S. F. Chronicle reporter, Michael Cabanatuan, repeatedly reported that the rejected bridge design was a “suspension” bridge instead of reporting that it was a cable stayed bridge. This failure to accurately report the story completely missed the essential point of the story.
Though the two types of bridges look similar no one has ever built a cable stayed bridge of the proposed size. The Army Corps of Engineers reported that the design did not meet the maximum foreseeable earthquake for the San Francisco region’s two (2) faults.
As we have previously reported, (see Lecture Notes September 4, 2004), Professor Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl says that the proposed design is highly vulnerable to progressive collapse. Because the cables of a cable stayed bridge do not carry the load to anchors at either end of the bridge, as in a normal suspension bridge, they can not carry the load of the bridge if the road deck should be damaged by even a “small car bomb.”
The key to this story is that the design, the cable stayed or self anchoring design, is highly vulnerable to collapse if the bridge’s geometry should be damaged by an earthquake or even a “small car bomb.”
However, the Chronicle reporter wrote, “McPeak [ head of the Business, Transportation & Housing Agency] said the bridge experts are certain a cable-stayed bridge -- a fairly common design -- can be constructed not only cheaper but faster than a single-tower suspension span.” But the proposed design is a cable stayed bridge that uses a single tower. The whole point of the story is lost on the reporter. And therefore the readers will not learn the truth of the problem. And therefore the corrupt Post Liberal Bay Area elite that has taken control of the levers of power can continue their misrule, their corrupt rule. This is progressive collapse of our social institutions.
And this is the consequence of the corruption of our society: The Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a Marin County Supervisor, Steve Kinsey, has known of the proposed design’s vulnerabilities since at least 1998. Yet when he was told that the Governor had rejected the bid claimed “rebidding the bridge puts the public in greater danger.”
Here you have this liar, Kinsey, this corrupt Bay Area politico, who knew that the design was unsafe, highly vulnerable to earthquake and terrorist damage, since 1998, accusing the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of putting “the public in greater danger.”
What words can we say? Hypocrisy? Mendacity?
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Lecture Notes: 10-01-04
Because of the leadership of the State’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the proposed bid to replace the Oakland Bay Bridge has been rejected, saving $1.4 billion on an unsafe design.
$1.4 billion was nearly lost attempting to build a cable stayed bridge to replace the Oakland Bay Bridge. The cable stayed design, where cables are not anchored at either end as in a suspension bridge, could not have withstood even a “small car bomb” according to a U. C. Berkeley Civil Engineering Professor, Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, who has previously consulted on the repairs of the existing bridge that was damaged in the 1989 Earthquake.( http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~astaneh/1-Services/SacLib-Index.htm).
In reporting on this story the S. F. Chronicle reporter, Michael Cabanatuan, repeatedly reported that the rejected bridge design was a “suspension” bridge instead of reporting that it was a cable stayed bridge. This failure to accurately report the story completely missed the essential point of the story.
Though the two types of bridges look similar no one has ever built a cable stayed bridge of the proposed size. The Army Corps of Engineers reported that the design did not meet the maximum foreseeable earthquake for the San Francisco region’s two (2) faults.
As we have previously reported, (see Lecture Notes September 4, 2004), Professor Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl says that the proposed design is highly vulnerable to progressive collapse. Because the cables of a cable stayed bridge do not carry the load to anchors at either end of the bridge, as in a normal suspension bridge, they can not carry the load of the bridge if the road deck should be damaged by even a “small car bomb.”
The key to this story is that the design, the cable stayed or self anchoring design, is highly vulnerable to collapse if the bridge’s geometry should be damaged by an earthquake or even a “small car bomb.”
However, the Chronicle reporter wrote, “McPeak [ head of the Business, Transportation & Housing Agency] said the bridge experts are certain a cable-stayed bridge -- a fairly common design -- can be constructed not only cheaper but faster than a single-tower suspension span.” But the proposed design is a cable stayed bridge that uses a single tower. The whole point of the story is lost on the reporter. And therefore the readers will not learn the truth of the problem. And therefore the corrupt Post Liberal Bay Area elite that has taken control of the levers of power can continue their misrule, their corrupt rule. This is progressive collapse of our social institutions.
And this is the consequence of the corruption of our society: The Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a Marin County Supervisor, Steve Kinsey, has known of the proposed design’s vulnerabilities since at least 1998. Yet when he was told that the Governor had rejected the bid claimed “rebidding the bridge puts the public in greater danger.”
Here you have this liar, Kinsey, this corrupt Bay Area politico, who knew that the design was unsafe, highly vulnerable to earthquake and terrorist damage, since 1998, accusing the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of putting “the public in greater danger.”
What words can we say? Hypocrisy? Mendacity?
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