Byline: Harvy Lipman Staff writer
Nearly 10 years before the Schoharie Creek bridge collapsed, Thruway officials ignored a consultant's recommendation that they rebuild the stone reinforcements around its foundation to prevent the very kind of erosion damage suspected of having caused the tragedy.
Testifying Thursday at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing on the April 5 collapse in which 10 people died, Thruway officials said they don't know why the authority never followed through on the consultant's recommendation.
The failure to strengthen the heavy stone reinforcement - known as riprap - around the base of the bridge could be a key element in the collapse, according to several experts. The director of the Engineering Research Center at Colorado State University, Ebert V. Richardson, testified Wednesday there is a "high probability" the bridge would not have …
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