Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Bay Bridge Closure - bridge after cable breakage on YouTube videos

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The Bay Bridge Cable Breakage Controversy shakes one's confidence in the engineering technology we create to allow us to (in this case) span a large expanse of water.

It would have been better to just replace the whole bridge - given the lives at risk - rather than array after array of cost-cutting approaches. But we can't reverse time and change things: hindsight is 20-20.

(Except in the case of a lawsuit where reversing time to determine "who did what" to gauge liability becomes important. This, in that way, is much like the Space Shuttle Challenger accident that caused an investigative committee to be formed to determine exactly what happened, who was at fault, and why. From that perspective, this is going to be a eye-opening look into California's infrastructure finance problems.)

To get a better idea of the bridge's condition after the incident, I went to YouTube to see what videos were posted. 2009 has seen the mainstreaming of the use of camcorders of various sizes to capture an action or event, so I expected to find a number of videos and did so.

This video created by YouTuber thatgirlray shows the breakage up close on video:



This video by markdemma is another "after breakage" point of view:



This view, from tmanaols, is from earlier in the day, just immediately after the cable break:



I will add more videos as they become available. I'm betting someone out there has the definitive video view of the collapse as it happened.

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