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Re:Florida Pedestrian Bridge Constructed 5 Days Ago Collapse... by AJ007 on Thursday March 15, 2018 @04:36PM (#16596317)
Are bridges collapsing common? Looks like those involved had at least two other bridge related incidents in the past - http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fiu-bridge-collapse-constr...
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Re:Florida Pedestrian Bridge Constructed 5 Days Ago Collapse... by sitharus on Thursday March 15, 2018 @04:45PM (#16596401)
Not major infrastructural bridges, there's a list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures

The US seems to have a lot, but there are a lot of bridges in the US. Construction is pretty risky though, there are often elements that are incompletely supported - engineers do plan for this and ensure they are strong enough.

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