A pedestrian bridge stretching across a street on the Florida International University campus in Miami collapsed Thursday afternoon, killing multiple people, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Aerial footage showed first responders tending to victims on the scene, searching for people in the rubble and loading others on stretchers into ambulances.
Five to six vehicles were crushed in the collapse, the highway patrol said.
Several dead and trapped. It was a 950 ton concrete pedestrian bridge covered by a concrete roof that spanned eight lanes of the highway beneath. Pic here.
Whenever I see these things now, I wonder if the company involved in the engineering was putting out flyers touting how important diversity was to their core mission, and how proud they were to have so few straight white males, and so many transgendered, trans-ageist, Xie-identifying, midget Gambian nationals.
K’s care only about degree of mastery and quality of accomplishment, while r’s are solely focused on making sure their world denies nothing to anyone. Sadly that produces a diminution of quality in output that can result in things like this as the functional morons are promoted up to fill quotas on things like sexual orientation or ethnic identity.
We will see with time where the origins of this catastrophe were. But until our society returns to emphasizing ability, effort and determination above things like skin color, sexual orientation, and degree of association with some ostracized minority group, I would not go walking or driving beneath and newly constructed multi-ton concrete structures.
You can tell everyone about r/K Theory, because leftism screws up everything
“UPDATE: I was right. The Mestizo companies building the failed bridge have a history. Read more at the Washington Times.”
https://saboteur365.wordpress.com/2018/03/15/third-world-construction-footbridge-collapse-in-miami-results-in-mass-casualties/
Link to VoxDay where one of his guys found a newspaper article celebrating the installation (just this past Saturday) and crowing about women bringing a unique outlook to building.
Leonor Flores, lead project executive and project engineer:
Q.E.D.
https://news.fiu.edu/2018/03/community-gathers-to-watch-950-ton-bridge-move-across-southwest-8th-street/120395
The engineer is a woman:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/03/hultgreen-curie-architecture-edition.html
As you might expect:
“Linda Figg, CEO of Figg Bridges, explained in an interview with Founders Club why the company’s slogan is “Creating Bridges as Art.” She said that when the company was first started, the Federal Highway Administration had a program that required any bridge that cost over $10 million to have an alternate design. Figg focused on creating those alternate designs, and over time began to win awards for aesthetics.
“They were winning awards for aesthetics because the economy, elegance, and efficiency of the design and the streamlined shapes were creating great beauty. So over time, we added the slogan: ‘Creating bridges as art,’ because it’s the art of the science and the aesthetic; everything goes into the art of the bridge. … We like to think of the bridges as sculptural works of art that are also economical, quick to build, and low-maintenance, so they have the total package. … We believe that the quality of life in a community is represented by the infrastructure that people see there.”
As a child, Figg dreamed about building things high in the air, Tallahassee Magazine reported, and that led to her life’s work of building bridges that are also considered works of art.”
Kobe Steel mayhap?
Oh Wow, never even thought of it. You might be right.
Well, early indications are it was: https://voxday.blogspot.ca/2018/03/hultgreen-curie-architecture-edition.html
There are few things more reliably predictive of things about to head south than a commitment to diversity
the construction firm’s facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/WeAreMCM
You should also note that r-selected architecture we have now are quite ugly. Modernist buildings make me angry and depressed when I look at them.
Yes, they are.. When they referred to the ‘artistic touch’ I deliberately went to look at the bridge design… only to find it remarkably UGLY.
THIS is their idea of beauty. They are so out of touch its scary
I was told that all the Gambians and Nigerians were rocket scientists. Did someone lie to me?
At this rate America is forgetting how to build bridges faster than the Romans forgot how to make cement.
“We’re able to put in an artistic touch and we’re able to build, too.”
lol, nope. Looks like gravity discriminates against wise latinas.
Not enough Vibranium in the re-bar.
Your right. Giiiirrrllll power engineer
That was my first thought, too. You can’t run first world infrastructure with third world human capital.
Vox Day’s blog links to information that suggests the engineer overseeing construction of the bridge was a woman who wanted to prove a point to her daughter about stronk independent womyn being just as capable of STEM as men. How many people are now dead because of this garbage?
http://voxday.blogspot.ca/2018/03/hultgreen-curie-architecture-edition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/voxpopoli+%28Vox+Popoli%29
“It’s very important for me as a woman and an engineer to be able to promote that to my daughter, because I think women have a different perspective. We’re able to put in an artistic touch and we’re able to build, too.”
Oooh, so it had an artistic touch to it, did it? A 950 ton concrete doily crushed people to death.
Your instincts are not far off, according to Vox Day: http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/03/hultgreen-curie-architecture-edition.html
Good luck with that. If you have to go somewhere these days, you will likely have to pass under some sort of structure at some point. Maybe if more of these things fall and more people die society will get a clue. Probably not though.
From happier times: (one day ago)
‘Leonor Flores ’98 is a project executive and one of 63 FIU alumni who work for MCM, the construction firm building the FIU-Sweetwater UniversityCity Bridge, which will further connect FIU and its northerly neighbor, the City of Sweetwater. She was excited to share her work with her family, especially Michelle, who is interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) in school.
Said Leonor: “It’s very important for me as a woman and an engineer to be able to promote that to my daughter, because I think women have a different perspective. We’re able to put in an artistic touch and we’re able to build, too.”’
https://news.fiu.edu/2018/03/community-gathers-to-watch-950-ton-bridge-move-across-southwest-8th-street/120395
A previous diversified project:
Installed only last Saturday, in response to a single student getting run over last August. ..
4 dead at least…
They could just teach students how to cross the road!
That would entail making Millenials pull their heads out of their…IPhones.
Munilla Construction Management (MCM) has a job page with a prominent EEO statement that takes half the page NOT including the statement on the first half of the page “Young professionals at MCM can expect to develop a stimulating and rewarding career in an organization that respects and values the contributions of people with different skills, cultures and backgrounds.”
NTTIAWWT necessarily if the people doing the work are competent. Sure looks like an affirmative action construction company to me.
http://www.mcm-us.com/careers
doh!
Same thing happened in Minnesota when their bridge collapsed. The media reported it as a diversity bid at first. Somebody must have told them to stop, so they blamed lack of funding for a crumbling infrastructure or something. They get around diversity bids in Chicago with extreme corruption. They’ll have one token black guy running a company full of white political relatives.
This is going to happen more and more. Makes me want to stay out of sanctuary cities.
According to Sundance at CTH, they were using the crane to stress test one of the concrete anchors for the suspension cables when the anchor cracked and gave way or a cable snapped. More likely the former as it doesn’t look like cables for the suspension were attached yet, considering it wasn’t due to open until next year. This resulted in the top layer collapsing onto the bottom walkway, bringing the whole structure down on top of the cars.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/15/mass-casualty-event-pedestrian-bridge-collapses-at-miami-florida-international-university/
I have to ask why they were undertaking such a stress test over an open road with vehicles that were stationary at the traffic lights? Surely not best practice.
Look no further than the FIU website.
abc-utc.fiu dot edu/about-us/key-researchers/
abc-utc.fiu dot edu/about-us/students/fiu-students/
I think this is related to this country’s hatred of beta males. Why give the job to a short, fat bald white man when he can be shoved aside for a “diverse” woman without real qualifications? Society has literally cast aside the kind of men who built this country and we are seeing the results.