Wednesday, October 28, 2009
oops
The SF Bay Way: Harbinger
the San Francisco Bay Bridge’s steel components have snapped... almost killed motorists just driving across the Bay Bridge. Pieces of the cantilever section fell during the late-afternoon commute hitting three vehicles on the upper deck. The section pieces that snapped are in the eastern side of Yerba Buena island which were recently retrofitted.
It’s no secret that components of the San Francisco Bay Bridge were outsourced to ZPMC, a large Chinese steel company. The question now is if any of the failed components were part and parcel of the outsourced package?
If the failed components were part of the outsourced bridge project, this incident would not a surprise. There were serious doubts about the structural integrity and welding of Bay Bridge components. Engineering and steel trade publications have written articles about the possible problems but for whatever reasons, the problems have been forgotten… till now.
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A valid and important question. Yet why did he feel the need to include this?
The question of quality is not a question of race-baiting China. It is a question of the relentless pursuit of “free trade” over American jobs and industry.
WTF’nF does this have to do with raaaaace?!?!?
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