It was intended to give FIU students a safe way to cross the eight-lane and extremely busy 8 th Street/Tamiami Trail. A peer review that failed to detect the calculation errors by designer FIGG Bridge Engineers – and an engineer's failure to recognize the importance of cracking before the collapse, contributed to the tragedy, the board said. The National Transportation Safety Board determined design errors are the probable causes for the tragedy. One construction worker and five people sitting in their cars were killed.
The FIU bridge was under construction when the 950-ton span collapsed onto busy 8th Street/Tamiami Trail on March 15, 2018, trapping cars that had been stopped at a traffic light underneath. In a meeting this week, the university's board of trustees approved the transfer of $9.1 million to the Florida Department of Transportation, which will oversee the design and construction of the bridge, the Miami Herald reported.
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