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If you check his LinkedIn page you'll see that won't be possible. The best part is he appears to me to be commenting on his own engineering word salad article himself using sockpuppet accounts.

Yup, it gets stranger the more you think about it. What an odd series of design decisions when an actual cable-stayed structure would arguably have made a lot more sense. At the least it would have removed a hard-working concrete truss from the design.

I think this is correct. The reverse slope of diagonals 3 and (almost) 5 would have concentrated the compressive and bending stresses in the canopy towards the side of the bridge that failed. It's possible/likely the asymmetric design of the truss, executed in service of making the bridge look...