Ep 21. Maintenance Malpractice: The Mianus River Bridge
- 34 min
You know that if you don?EUR(TM)t maintain your car, it can stop working?EUR"no matter how good its design and construction. But we have often overlooked that lesson when it comes to bridges. Follow the fascinating case of the Mianus River Bridge and discover how lack of maintenance caused its collapse in 1983, although the bridge had just been inspected. What happened to those pin-and-hanger connections? And exactly, whose fault was it?