Norimitsu Onishi, for the NY Times:
The new stretch of the bridge is equipped with the latest in antiseismic design. But in March, 32 in a batch of 96 high-strength steel bolts holding shock-absorbing devices called shear keys snapped, a failure that Steve Heminger, the chairman of the [toll bridge program oversight] committee, later described as “catastrophic.”
It makes me feel really good inside when labels like “catastrophic” are applied to bridges I will soon frequent.