EXTREME ENGINEERING 101

摘要

The lions gate bridge carries some 70,000 cars almost a mile across the entrance to Vancouver's harbor every day. In a city polishing itself up for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the bridge is prime postcard fodder. Except today, what with the red-and-white car dangling from the center span. And since 4:15 this morning, it's been the Ministry of Transportation's problem to get the thing down. Allan Galambos, wiry and gray-bearded, is the ministry's head structural engineer, and when he got the call that an old Volkswagen Beetle was hanging from Vancouver's best-known bridge, he wasn't amused.