Ok, let me clarify
they should have sent an iron ring Civil Engineer. If they sent a shovel-leaning flunky, that indicts the administration of the Quebec transportation safety administration. If they sent a real engineer, it indicts him.
If they don't have an iron ring, they're not an engineer; all other people are simply marketing for the sake of stroking and wage inflation. Just my take on that.
My guess is they sent the flunky, not the engineer, and they're running around trying to figure out how they're all going to cover their asses. Sadly, some of the pols are helping them.
Fortunately, the Quebecois are rightly pissed. It's clear that this isn't a design issue, but a maintenance issue, and that this was an accident waiting to happen; it's not like it's not the first time that this has happened. The last time, they hung the engineer out to dry, and he deserved to be hung out to dry too. This time, I think they're probably looking for one to hang out to dry (even to the extent of looking back at the last bridge inspection in early '05) but I don't think it's going to wash, as structures like this should be inspected by qualified people at least annually, and perhaps even quarterly considering the number of cars going over and under the bridges in question.
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