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[quote user="Krazykat112079"] The cause of the bridge collapse will be revealed, but we already know the reason: lack of adequate quality inspections.   [/quote]The probable cause sure does point that way, unless something really fluky is found to be a cause that can be said to be an act of god.  Bridges start to wear out the day they are opened.  That is why there is a federal inspection program in place to guarantee that bridges do not become unsafe.  It is similar in its rigid requirements to the federal locomotive boiler code enforcement.  You have to learn the condition of all of the metal.  It is quite popular for politicians to blame the people who resisted higher taxes.  But that is a worse excuse than pigeon poop.  That lame excuse is a political ploy to expand the government on the back of this tragedy.  Even MNDOT ran away from the funding excuse because they know that it is a bogus, transparent stunt.It is true that a bridge will collapse if it is not maintained, and maintenance costs money.  But a lack of money cannot possibly be the cause when you have agencies in place that only have the two options: 1)   Guarantee the safety of the bridge.2)   Close the bridge.    Our so-called crumbling infrastructure is being used like a cash cow to pull in revenue that can be spent for anything else they happen to want.  If they fix the roads and bridges they kill the cash cow.  And then they won't have their several hundred millions of dollars that they siphon off the highway budget and spend on bike trails every year in Minnesota, for instance.
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