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General Topics => Off Topic => Topic started by: ren on November 14, 2025, 06:21:59 PM

Title: It's a pedestrian bridge
Post by: ren on November 14, 2025, 06:21:59 PM

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/11/14/coconut-island-footbridge-hilo-collapses-unknown-if-anyone-was-hurt/

I think I can figure out why the bridge collapsed and I'm not a civil engineer nor a physicist

Title: Re: It's a pedestrian bridge
Post by: Flapp_Jackson on November 14, 2025, 06:26:44 PM

Are you saying there's some part of pedestrian footbridge he/she didn't understand?

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... as a county worker drove a mini-excavator across the structure ...

I guess we need to wait a year or so for the investigation's findings.

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The nearly 60-year-old pedestrian bridge now partially sits in the water.
It’s still unknown if the excavator’s weight led to the collapse.

:wacko: :geekdanc:

Title: Re: It's a pedestrian bridge
Post by: QUIETShooter on November 22, 2025, 12:29:35 PM

What is this 24 months to repair at an estimated cost of 2 million.  WTF.

The part that is resting in the water, throw some 2X12 planks across it.  Tie some 2X4 on both sides of the existing railings still above the water.

Boom.  Pau. 

Material source:  City Mill or similar.

Contractor:  Neighbors and friends.

Cost:  $400  maybe even less.

I know.  I know.  This is a ridiculous proposal.

But not as ridiculous as taking 2 years to fix at a cost of 2 million dollars.  Guaran ball barans 1.5 million ends up in bureaucratic pockets.