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The Bridge Is Rated For Forty
The Nethra Viaduct carries four lanes and a footway 212 metres over the tidal River Kell, eleven weeks and three days from a vote that will certify it for another eleven years without anybody standing on it.
- ~214 min (estimated)
- 47222 words
- 85 scenes
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
36 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
It is rated for forty tonnes. It holds thirty-nine point two. Tamsin Rooke, 35, is running the verification load test. Ewan Macalister, 44, is the council's authorising engineer and the only signature that can release or refuse the order. They have both known the number since the tender documents, in the same hour, on the same page, and they have said it to each other, once, standing on the deck at seven forty in the morning, and then they went on to do their jobs properly. What follows is not a cover-up. Nobody lies, nobody takes a bribe, and nobody in this book is a villain. The tender that hired them fixes the load-test baseline window at 06:20, four hours off the hour a real baseline has to be taken, because that is the window the ballast contractor's crew had left free and it is the hour span 2 sits at its daily thermal minimum. At 06:20 the residuals look like weather. At one in th
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- A bridge that is over its limit and is signed off anyway.
- A falsified or never-verified model input, and a data science ticket closed as expected drift.
- Weight restriction, road diversion, freight cost, and two small businesses closing.
- A person resigning by email and a professional reputation ending in a file.
- A woman saying no to something she wanted, and the no being correct.
Cast
- T Tamsin Rooke protagonist no portrait yet
- E Ewan Macalister deuteragonist and the person the protagonist wants no portrait yet
- N Nella Okpara no portrait yet
- R Ruaridh Grieve no portrait yet
- S Sunniva Rask no portrait yet
- T Tomas Innes no portrait yet
- E Eoghan Coyle no portrait yet
- G Greta Halstrom no portrait yet
- D Dev Bhattacharya no portrait yet
- M Marek Sandoval no portrait yet