Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh, Scotland: the failure of one cable cannot lead to the collapse of the structure. Modern cable-stayed bridges have many more tensile cables and therefore considerably higher in-built redundancy than for example the Morandi Bridge.

Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh, Scotland: the failure of one cable cannot lead to the collapse of the structure. Modern cable-stayed bridges have many more tensile cables and therefore considerably higher in-built redundancy than for example the Morandi Bridge.

Image credit: Transport Scotland