May 24, 2008

  • This strikes me as a tragedy waiting to happen:

    Crane2

    This afternoon I went to SuperTarget (as is my custom), and was appalled to find that though no construction activity was going on, the honkin' big crane being used to build the new Museum Place mixed-use complex was hanging - not over the construction area where no one was - but over Seventh Street, a fairly busy street.  Cranes can suddenly fall, as we've seen both here in the Metroplex and up in NYC, where some poor woman died when a crane collapsed onto her apartment.

    Why on earth would a crane operator go off for the Memorial Day weekend leaving the horizontal arm hovering over a well-traveled street?