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A 16 m light timber footbridge has a 1.2 Hz lateral frequency in the crowd lock-in band: lateral sway passes usability limits at a crowd of about 4 and an unsafe limit at about 9. Bracing and damping priced at about $374 raise the unusable crowd to about 19.
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