New Pedestrian Bridge Collapses in Miami

[kaz]

See post #58. Then tell us what the excuse is for it to happen under Obama’s administration.

Another 'Reasonable' conclusion: "Something bad happened.....uuuuuh it's Trump's fault!"

Translation: Nothing is Trump's fault.
I see you continually look the other way as Trump is rolling back Obama's safety regulations.

They tested an incomplete bridge (designed center support wasn't even built yet) over an active highway and killed a lot of people TODAY. Obama left office more than a year ago. What does the collapse have to do with Obama ?

What does the collapse have to do with ANY president?

Some nut job said it was Obama's fault.

LOL, you say that in a post where you quoted a dumb ass saying it was Trump's fault. You're drowning in partisan love of the Democrat party.

Other than Ivanka. Oh la la, you're hooked. You'd vote for Trump in 2020 for just a whiff of that

 

[Not2BSubjugated]

Tell me again how great getting rid of regulations are?
Would you feel the same way if you were under this collapsed bridge?

A special construction method was used on the pedestrian bridge that collapsed in Florida on Thursday, killing several people. The method is known as "accelerated bridge construction," and it's meant to minimize traffic disruption and maximize safety.

But CBS News has learned that two firms involved in the construction have been accused of unsafe practices in the past.

Firms that built collapsed Miami bridge have history of safety complaints

DON'T worry. Donald Trump is on it.
Trump Rolls Back Numerous Transportation Safety Regulations

Since you're obviously quite sure that it was regulation rollbacks that were responsible, you must therefore be sure of which regulation got removed that, if observed by the construction firm, would have prevented this tragedy from occurring, right?

So tell me, genius, which regulation was it?

I'll wait.

 

[Rambunctious]

More of Obama's regulations this bastard is rolling back.
He's not only happy to put us at risk on land.. but also in the ocean.

Trump to roll back offshore drilling safety regulations: report

Hey stupid the bridge was over dry land....

 

[Rambunctious]

Well so much for reasonable's theory

This new method of bridge construction was started during the Obama administration... It's an off site type of construction that was argued against br engineers but the Obama administration pushed hard for it to speed up infrastructure rebuilding...So if anyone is to blame it's Obama...I predict this type of construction will not be approved in the future...

 

[Rambunctious]

If you're breathing, you're lying

Your new moniker? I like it... it fits you to a tee...

 

[Rambunctious]

The steel cables loosened and while tightening them they snapped like the cheap Chinese steel that they are...If the bridge were built in place like it should have been the weak cables would have been discovered and replaced during construction with American steel cables ...but Obama wanted that bridge done his way...well he got it...

 

[MrShangles]

CHEAP CHINESE STEEL.......

Nonsense.

I guess you think lax regulations that can kill people is a good idea.
Noted.

You should do a little research, Trump isn’t removing any regulations involving safety.
Another MSM sheep being spoon feed.


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[WheelieAddict]

Not to point fingers (ok I'm going to) I'd look at MCM. Someone fd up onsite. Maybe it was a subcontractor with MCM....

 

[Peter Dow]

If George Bush was responsible for the economy Obama inherited, this bridge collapse is Obama's legacy left for President Trump.

/——/ the new technology was approveded by Obozo

Yes it seems that Obama is indeed to blame for promoting this guy.

“This project is an outstanding example of the ABC method,” said chair of FIU’s Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and director of FIU’s ABC-UTC Atorod Azizinamini, who is one of the world’s leading experts on Accelerated Bridge Construction. “Building the major element of the bridge – its main span superstructure – outside of the traveled way and away from busy Eighth Street is a milestone.”

Please note, however, that I am not "the right" blaming "the left" but a competent scientist blaming incompetence.

2015 - Atorod Azizinamini, director of the Florida International University bridge collapse, is congratulated by Obama's Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, as the Obama Administration names Azizinamini a "Champion of Change in Transportation".

The White House Champions of Change event on October 13, 2015, honored 11 men and women who are innovating in transportation and growing the American economy. To learn more about the 2015 Champions of Change in Transportation in their own words, please click on their names below.

• Atorod Azizinamini, Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University – Miramar, Florida
  Dr. Atorod Azizimamini invented the Folder Steel Plate Girder bridge system, which provides a cost-effective alternative for rapidly replacing or retrofitting short span bridges without impacting traffic or mobility. His rapid bridge replacement technology gives states a cost-effective solution to bridge upgrades that is faster to complete.

Maybe Obama's Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx accepted the not-great but rotten-to-the-core Florida International University's accreditation of Azizinamini as the basis of why Obama made him a "transportation champion of change".

FIU trusted Azizinamini and that's why Obama / Foxx trusted him. Obama's mistake was trusting FIU but as we can now see that institution is rotten to the core - the core being an incompetent President, Mark B. Rosenberg, supported by an untrustworthy board of trustees.

However Obama and Foxx are gone now so the present Florida governor and the state police and President Trump and the FBI need to decide if they still trust Azizimamini enough not to arrest him right away on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, as I would recommend.

Executive Recommendation

Atorod Azizinamini should be arrested immediately and if he is to be released on bail by a court it should be with the bail condition that he is forbidden from acting as Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering or Director of FIU’s Accelerated Bridge Construction University Transportation Center (ABC-UTC) pending his trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

References -

Canada Free Press - Father of Collapsed Florida Bridge was Obama ‘Champion of Change’ in 2015
Celebrated leading visionary bridge engineer Atorod Azizinamini, whose ABC (Accelerated Bridge Construction) technology was used to build the bridge that collapsed yesterday on Florida International University’s campus, was named an Obama era Department of Transportation ‘Champion of Change’ in 2015.

The event in which Azizinamini was awarded ‘Champion of Change’ status was webcast live at whitehouse.gov/live, no longer online.​

Actually, the University of Maine has uploaded an edited video of that Obama administration webcast, here



You can see Azizinamini sitting on the panel at the end of the video, second from the left and here are a couple of photographs of him from the White House event.

 

[Doc1]

This is what happens when democrats make the decisions.

Are democrats weakening safety rules?
Goddamn you drunken woman...
trump's rolling back a plethora of safety rules and consumer protection rules.

This had nothing to do with Trump child, nothing.

 

[Cellblock2429]

If George Bush was responsible for the economy Obama inherited, this bridge collapse is Obama's legacy left for President Trump.

/——/ the new technology was approveded by Obozo

Yes it seems that Obama is indeed to blame for promoting this guy.

“This project is an outstanding example of the ABC method,” said chair of FIU’s Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and director of FIU’s ABC-UTC Atorod Azizinamini, who is one of the world’s leading experts on Accelerated Bridge Construction. “Building the major element of the bridge – its main span superstructure – outside of the traveled way and away from busy Eighth Street is a milestone.”

Please note, however, that I am not "the right" blaming "the left" but a competent scientist blaming incompetence.

2015 - Atorod Azizinamini, director of the Florida International University bridge collapse, is congratulated by Obama's Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, as the Obama Administration names Azizinamini a "Champion of Change in Transportation".


The White House Champions of Change event on October 13, 2015, honored 11 men and women who are innovating in transportation and growing the American economy. To learn more about the 2015 Champions of Change in Transportation in their own words, please click on their names below.

• Atorod Azizinamini, Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University – Miramar, Florida
  Dr. Atorod Azizimamini invented the Folder Steel Plate Girder bridge system, which provides a cost-effective alternative for rapidly replacing or retrofitting short span bridges without impacting traffic or mobility. His rapid bridge replacement technology gives states a cost-effective solution to bridge upgrades that is faster to complete.

Maybe Obama's Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx accepted the not-great but rotten-to-the-core Florida International University's accreditation of Azizinamini as the basis of why Obama made him a "transportation champion of change".

FIU trusted Azizinamini and that's why Obama / Foxx trusted him. Obama's mistake was trusting FIU but as we can now see that institution is rotten to the core - the core being an incompetent President, Mark B. Rosenberg, supported by an untrustworthy board of trustees.

However Obama and Foxx are gone now so the present Florida governor and the state police and President Trump and the FBI need to decide if they still trust Azizimamini enough not to arrest him right away on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, as I would recommend.

Executive Recommendation

Atorod Azizinamini should be arrested immediately and if he is to be released on bail by a court it should be with the bail condition that he is forbidden from acting as Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering or Director of FIU’s Accelerated Bridge Construction University Transportation Center (ABC-UTC) pending his trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

References -

Canada Free Press - Father of Collapsed Florida Bridge was Obama ‘Champion of Change’ in 2015
Celebrated leading visionary bridge engineer Atorod Azizinamini, whose ABC (Accelerated Bridge Construction) technology was used to build the bridge that collapsed yesterday on Florida International University’s campus, was named an Obama era Department of Transportation ‘Champion of Change’ in 2015.

The event in which Azizinamini was awarded ‘Champion of Change’ status was webcast live at whitehouse.gov/live, no longer online.​

Actually, the University of Maine has uploaded an edited video of that Obama administration webcast, here



You can see Azizinamini sitting on the panel at the end of the video, second from the left and here are a couple of photographs of him from the White House event.

/——/ When Atorod was adked about his pending arrest, he said he’d cross that bridge when he gets to it.

 

[edthecynic]

This is what happens when democrats make the decisions.

Well you knew the whack-job Right was going to blame the Dems generally and Obama specifically for the mistakes of the private sector.

 

[Doc1]

This is what happens when democrats make the decisions.

Well you knew the whack-job Right was going to blame the Dems generally and Obama specifically for the mistakes of the private sector.

Nope, the blame lies with the contractor, the program that was used to fund it though was all Obama...but that had nothing to with the building materials.

 

[evenflow1969]

MACA. Make America Cuba Again

It started construction in spring but had to be commissioned in 2016 to have the work started. I guess this is what happens when you have shovel ready jobs, that weren't shovel ready...Liberalism kills people.

If George Bush was responsible for the economy Obama inherited, this bridge collapse is Obama's legacy left for President Trump.

The President has nothing to do with this bridge. Not Obama not Trump. Neither are engineers and could have done nothing to prevent this. This would fall under the perview of the city engineer. I would assume they did not open the bridge until the city engineer gave his stamp, I do not know this to be the case. We have some of the pre engineered bridges in Ohio and they are functioning as designed so far. This was likely an issue of installation how ever that has yet to be determined. This bridge never hit a presidents desk before going up, the president does not sign off on such a thing.

 

[depotoo]

Watching them today, other than the concrete borer, things have been moving like jiminy Christmas. I can’t imagine how these families must feel. And there were several dozens just standing around.

 

[depotoo]

Two we know that have died
‘My little girl was trapped’: FIU student Alexa Duran died in bridge collapse, dad says
Bridge worker Navaro Brown died in collapse of FIU span, company says
One a student, the other a worker

 

[impuretrash]

I'll just get it out of the way and call myself a dirty misogynist for even thinking that so called "diversity hiring" (aka hiring unqualified people because of race and gender) might have played a role.

A Female-Led Construction Company Built The Florida Bridge That Collapsed

 

[Coyote]

no.

 

[impuretrash]

no.

I think it's worth looking into. We'll probably see more stuff like this in the future as merit based hiring goes the way of the dodo in order to promote "diversity".

 

[Coyote]

no.

I think it's worth looking into. We'll probably see more stuff like this in the future as merit based hiring goes the way of the dodo in order to promote "diversity".

Maybe it's simply going for the cheapest bid without regards to quality...hmmm?