Now that we caught an actual structural engineer, here's a question from a fellow engineer (but the wrong kind to know this):

• Would it be harder to repair a suspension bridge (or at least the suspended span of a bridge with one)?

I'm thinking of the top of my head that the forces and dynamics of a suspension bridge are very different from those of a more traditional bridge and thus that if the actual cables holding it are blown up at the anchor points, the whole suspended span just brings itself down as a whole leaving just the pillars.

Further, suspension bridges tend to be used for longer lengths of bridge were you can't really have pillars in the middle (in this example in the US, the suspended spawn being there so that ships can cross under the bridge)