This time, there’ll be road closures during the bridge’s construction.
When the Florida International University (FIU) pedestrian bridge collapsed over SW Eighth Street four years ago, killing six motorists, many stunned observers wondered: Why wasn’t the road closed while the bridge was being constructed? After the National Transportation Safety Board investigated the collapse, they determined that the parties involved in the bridge’s construction — including FIU; the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT); Munilla Construction Management, the builder overseeing the project; FIGG Bridge Group, the construction company hired to design the bridge; and Bolton Perez, the firm hired to review the bridge design — should have closed SW Eighth Street when they noticed structural issues with the bridge but didn’t.…