🚀 go-pugleaf

True true, I guess caltrans didn't even try.  Because earthquakes are
real in southern California they know despite their best efforts they
will loose some freeways, elevated, stacked, all of it depending on
the earthquake.  So in other words, Caltrans made those series of
overpasses on the harbor freeway close by to downtown LA as cheap as
possible.  Disposable, designed cheap and easier to be rebuilt after
an earthquake.  They probably think that cheap scary design will last
about 50 years approx. before the next quake and that's good enough
since these freeways are needed and heavily used everyday anyway.

-Vince


William Lynch <bozo.clown@big.top> wrote in message news:<3B75372C.D1B811C@big.top>...
> Merritt Mullen wrote:
> 
> > Vincent Valencio at volksdriven63@hotmail.com wrote on 8/10/01 6:37 PM:
> >
> > > Caltrans never learns.  Those freeways with the T shaped columns
> > > directly under are dangerous.  Look at how unstable it is.  Just like
> > > trying to balance a dinning room table on one foot and to expect it to
> > > stay upright once you set your plate down.
> >
> > It is to laugh.  What school did you get your civil engineering degree at?
> >
> > Merritt
> 
> I would have thought that that question should be directed to those
> who built the central expressway in Kobe.  IIRC, that is the only
> time where this design has been near the center of a major quake,
> and the failure was 100%.