Highway Overpass Near Montreal Collapses, Two Cars Crushed

[isod1]

Has Jan Wong blamed this on francophone culture yet?

Hey why not blame her acidic comments for the deterioration of our roadways

 

[EagerBeaver]

Could not, the victims are all quebeckers if I'm not mistaken

We should not lose sight of what happened to these victims because of gross negligence of the relevant authorities. These people were crushed like pancakes! The wreckage of the cars carrying the deceased were smashed to below knee level. What horrible deaths these people suffered! They never saw it coming, never expected that their trip to Montreal would end in such a horrifying manner.

What is known about the identities of the deceased victims?

I also read that some motorists who were on top of the bridge were also critically injured. It must have been horrifying to go down with that bridge. These people will suffer nightmares for the rest of their lives, and probably will have trouble driving over any bridge in the future as it will trigger the memories.

 

[isod1]

What is known about the identities of the deceased victims?

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20061002/CPACTUALITES/61002085/5032/CPACTUALITES has the identities of the victims and current state of some of the injured

 

[EagerBeaver]

Martin,

In the context in which I used it, "suffered" means the same as "sustained." It is "sustained" with an unpleasantness. It is one of those tricky English words with multiple meanings and uses.

I know you are a native Francophone so I give you a pass, especially since my French is much worse.

 

[robinXwood]

Completly unacceptable!!!

We all are paying for this roads and bridges. I am outraged that something like that could actualy happend. Someone who would do a fiction motion picture with that subject would be call irrealistic and yet it happened.

Fellows, this is the clear sign of the lack of care from our polititians at all level. The system is corrupted and everybody know it. Go figure now that the company who built this thing is gone. Also in my mind is process of choosing the company who will built the bridge. Couple of years ago the government looking at submission for roads find out that the company that where chosen at a lower cost had to pay under the table workers. The numbers for minimun salary and quantity of workers where not possible. One word "incompetants"

Call me crazy but this events, will trace the path to put the private industry at work in this domain. I am not talking about partnership with the government put plain private roads and bridges with toll of course. They want to bring it back and they dont know how to annonce that to the population but with these kind of events it will be easier to change our way to see this.

If there was a member of my family or a friend down there they would have serious troubles with me!!! I guess they will never learn until the population bring a goverment down by legal actions or revolution.

 

[rollingstone]

I saw a report recently which claimed that a majority of university students cheat. I wonder if the incompetence of some graduates who got through by cheating has anything to do with bridges falling down.

The university students with the heaviest workloads are the engineers. They have the most hours of class and labs per week. In my opinion, only an exceptional student could possibly keep up without collaborating. The line between working with other students and copying/cheating is often breached.

Unfortunately "collaboration" means that a student with assignments in multiple subjects will do one of them and trade his/her solution with others and end up knowing almost nothing of the other subjects.

I have met some engineering graduates who not only didn't know how to do some very basic stuff from courses they passed but didn't even remember seeing it.

What makes it worse is that there are honest hard working students out there who are subject to enormous peer pressure to 'allow' their friends to copy their assignments or shift their exam paper into a better viewing position. There are number of cheating techniques that involve high tech gagdets like HP programmable calculators to low tech like inscribing equations on a ruler with a sharp object.

If workload is the real issue here, then perhaps the universities should follow the german/italian model and make engineering majors a 5 year program.