The street pre construction
You know why Japan can build high speed rail and bridges that span major islands in the ocean? Because when they build the bridge, they just make 130 school children stand on the bridge every 5 years to test the bridge safety. Cheap and effective: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240924/p2a/00m/0na/017000c.
For the construction to proceed the city required 3 inspections:
While only one inspector was supposed to show up, two people from the city actually came. The older inspector said he was working for the city of Duvall doing inspections for 38 years, tomorrow is his last day before retirement and in 38 years of doing this job he has never seen any project like this one. They very much had that old cop deciding to go on one last mission movie trope vibe.
Fortunately, the inspection was actually not too onerous, the only thing missing was that we didn't have the road construction signs and so I had to drive urgently to a road construction store in Monroe, WA and rent a couple of signs.
After two days of heroic work by the NCS Construction Service the bridge was up and we passed the inspections by the city.
The ropes assembly
The street after construction
The ropes attached to the tree
As a side note, now I have no hope that California light rail can ever be build.
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