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[Dirk Munk]

johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

>>
>> Sometimes it's not cost that is involved, it is good design.  Many times
>> it doesn't cost more to do the job "right", and sometimes it cost less.
>
> Beautifully put.
>
> Over here, the bit about "doing it right" vs "doing it shiny" is
> exemplified by London's Millenium Bridge. Very shiny on paper (or
> modern equivalent), functional disaster in the real world, slightly
> embarrassing for a country that used to have a world leading bridge
> design industry, cost a small fortune to fix. But shiny.
>

Well, to be fair to the designers, the movement of the bridge isn't that 
unique. We had a similar problem in the Netherlands with the Erasmus 
bridge in Rotterdam (it was also stopped by mounting dampers). I 
recently saw a video clip of a Russian bridge galloping wildly in the wind.

And we've all seen the famous film of the collapse of "Galloping Gertie" 
haven't we?