> Last month, a team of engineers deployed 96 trucks to strategic points across the bridge to recreate heavy traffic conditions to ensure it would not buckle.
They probably wanted to quantify how much the bridge moved in various ways. There were likely many "it probably won't move more than acceptable in this way, but if it does we've made it easy to add a change here to fix that" facets of the design. All large complex structures undergo testing like this, sea trials for ships being the quintessential example.
> Last month, a team of engineers deployed 96 trucks to strategic points across the bridge to recreate heavy traffic conditions to ensure it would not buckle.
Reminds me of this https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/74c15210deb9013171...