A lot of people are looking at the wreckage of I-35 in Minneapolis and seeing their own agenda.

An anti-globalization site says the the bridge collapse was caused by foreign trucks:

Evidence of increasing international trade truck traffic on Interstate 35 through Minnesota raises concerns that NAFTA Superhighway traffic contributed to last week’s collapse of the freeway bridge in Minneapolis.

WND has unearthed a Federal Highway Administration report dating back to 1998 that warned increasing NAFTA truck traffic was expected to create a safety concern with bridges in states along the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway, including Minnesota.

(thanks to Blue Bayou)

A 4/29 consipracy website is sure that the collapse was a controlled explosion, likely part of a vast conspiracy to blow up transportation infrastructure and making it look like an accident (their take on smoke in a subway station, no injuries: “There are 9 letters in ‘train fire’ and 11 in ’embarcadero’.”) It’s kind of anti-terrorism, I suppose — blowing up things in such as a way as to cause people not to be terrorized:

Don’t let eccentric conspiracy theorists persuade you that the only legitimate story is the official story. It may be too early to point fingers, but even the most cursory reading of yesterday’s news reveals questions that the authorities seem all too eager to simply dismiss.

The New York Times quotes a professional anti-rail “expert” who says the bridge fell down because of transit:

“Too many American cities are spending far too much money on expensive rail transit projects, which are used for only 1 to 2 percent of local travel, and far too little on highway projects which are used for 95 to 99 percent of local travel,” Randal O’Toole, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute, said in an e-mail interview.

(via Overhead Wire, among others)

Our local anti-Metro activist, Barry Klein, is quick to relate Minneapolis to METRO (via an email from Barry quoting another email):

As I sit here in London, watching the Fox News report on the I-35 bridge collapse, I can’t help but wonder if Houston may be looking at a similar disaster, with the Pierce Elevated, due to Underground Stray Current Corrosion, caused by the Wham-Bam-Tram.

I actually have two degrees in civil engineering. I design steel structures for a living. I don’t know why the bridge collapsed. Neither does anyone else. We’ll know in a few months, probably. Engineers will do a lot of investigation and modeling to figure it out.

Forensic engineering is hard, and it takes time. Relating everything to your agenda only takes imagination. Feel free to try yours out in our forums.