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Originally Posted by Soundy
It's not the fault of those who actually built it, either - if anything the problem lies in the actual design, particularly of the cable sheaths, and the material they're made of, all of which allowed the ice to build up. The ones building it have little or no say in that - they're given the plans and they follow what those tell them to do.
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What's bolded is exactly it.
The weather is a giant factor that comes into play, yet they should still have those cable sheaths designed to a certain point where ice should not be able to build up on them. Because of this fact it has the ability to "rain icy death chunks."
They now have to figure out a solution.
@alpinestars: It's not the fact that they look at it being a $4million annual cost to pay out the people injured, it's downtime.
If they close the bridge for 1 day a year because of this annoying occurrence. That could translate into way more then $4 million. Assuming 250,000 people cross this bridge a day, that would be 250,000 x 3 = $750k. Plus any more lawsuits, court costs, lawyers, etc. for the injured parties. (And that's for just 1 day.. We get snow more then 1 day a year)
I think the toll might go up once they figure out the solution.
