Dorgan also cited an in-depth study of the bridge's fatigue potential conducted from 2004 to 2007 that recommended two alternatives for the bridge's future -- to add steelplatesto reinforce critical parts of the bridge or to conduct thorough inspections of the wells inside the box to determine whether there were cracks.
Several hundred metres east, another platform appears to be suspended in thin air, with only rusted designer steel and glass plates separating you from a 200m drop to the Trollstigen valley below.
To prove his point, he sterilized copper and stainless steelplates, then coated them with around 10 million cells each of MRSA. The plates were then monitored under a microscope to see what happened to the bacteria.
Head inside and join the queue of loyalists patiently waiting to order plates of black beans and rice, stews and pork shoulder, steaming on stainless steel trays.