Brdige crane collapse in Vancouver, BC.
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Bridge Crance Collapse
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What went on resumed in a photo.
msquared48
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Any pics of what the crane looked like before the collapse?
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
In Toledo I believe it was the curve of the bridge in combination with the poor judgment and hubris of the contractor which caused the collapse. Killed several people.
Don't know if this is quite the same.
It can't be the same contractor since the Toledo contractor went under as a result (as well they should). It might be the same (Italian?) crane system, though.
Don't know if this is quite the same.
It can't be the same contractor since the Toledo contractor went under as a result (as well they should). It might be the same (Italian?) crane system, though.
Hello all,
This is off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone noticed in the OP's referenced article, the liberal use of hyphens. I assume this is a professonal writer, and was wondering if this is standard use of the hyphen in Canada. Such as: "spokes-man", "drop-ping", and also in a two places, a pair of hyphens are used as substitutes for a pair of commas and a pair of parentheses.
Not being facetious,just curious.
Thank you,
EEJaime
This is off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone noticed in the OP's referenced article, the liberal use of hyphens. I assume this is a professonal writer, and was wondering if this is standard use of the hyphen in Canada. Such as: "spokes-man", "drop-ping", and also in a two places, a pair of hyphens are used as substitutes for a pair of commas and a pair of parentheses.
Not being facetious,just curious.
Thank you,
EEJaime
I'm not-being facetious-either but I-think it's a combination of modern computer-writing, incompetent-editing and journalese. It has been a-while since I have seen much in-the-way-of real writing by any-one from a so-called journalism-school (apologies to my brother). Add in the 140-character twit-or-is-it-tweet and the ubiquitous text-message composed of non-words & it-s a race to the bottom. Those of us in Canada who actually use English are no less competent at it than those elsewhere.
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