Politicians Suppress Report on 2nd Failed URS Bridge Project

Minneapolis Politicians Suppress Report on 2nd Failed URS Bridge Project

The Martin Olaf Sabo Bridge After Cable Failure-Constructed 2007

Despite Pledge, Sabo Bridge Report Not Released Thursday
Despite the full report into the failure of the Sabo pedestrian bridge being delivered by its consultants on Thursday, the city of Minneapolis will not immediately release it to the public as it initially promised....

 In addition, the document noted that winds as light as five to 10 miles per hour were enough to cause cable vibrations that induced damaging stress on the bridge's cables. URS, the firm that designed the bridge, did not include wind calculations in the original design calculations package, the summary said.

That does not mean such calculations were not made, Kotke cautioned at the time....

Failure of the URS Corp's Sabo Bridge

So far, the costs of shoring up the bridge, detouring traffic for several weeks, and determining the cause of the cable failures has reached approximately $1 million.
Staff at the Met Council, which put on hold a decision about whether to hire URS for a $94 million contract to engineer the new Southwest Light Rail line, has now met with representatives from URS about the problems with the Sabo bridge, a spokesperson confirmed.

Despite Pledge, Sabo Bridge Report Not Released Thursday 

 UPDATE- No Bid Contracts and Connections The Martin Olaf Sabo Bridge-The Fix is In






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