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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
There was never any intention to make everything 14 feet. That would bankrupt the country.
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Nonsense. A bridge is simply jacked up and the roadway (that gets replaced every 10 years) is adjusted. It was recently done in one town so that fire engines could get to the other side of town. It cost very little to hydraulically raise the bridge and pour reinforced concrete on the existing supporting walls.
Anytime a bridge gets rebuilt - it is automatically raised. But we do not do that when naysaying cost controllers cry it costs too much and has no puirpose. After all, the destructive of trucks does not appear on those bean counter' spread sheets. So raising a bridge is an unnecessary expense. Using same business school reasoning that also created the Flint water crisis.
An interstate standard height is (should be) standard for all bridges. We have no problem spending more money (than the entire economy of India - $3 trillion) on lies for Mission Accomplished. Then have no money to fix the infrastructure. We would rather waste 5000 American soldiers on an obvious lie rather than fix glaring defects.
Took friends from Europe to NYC. They were shocked at how much of America is in decrepit condition. Trains were obsolete, noisy, and uncomfortable. Whole neighborhoods in disarray. Streets with shockingly poor surfaces. Wires hanging from poles all over every street. Constant grid lock on so many main highways. Even the airport and transportation from it was akin to what is expected in many third world nations.
That 11'3" bridge is simply another example of an economy so pathetic as to even lead poison its citizens in Flint MI - and many other towns where same actions by cost controllers were not reported.
Only two tunnels, built over 100 years ago by the long gone Pennsylvania railroad, are the only major connection to NYC across the Hudson River. So another bean counter (anti-America) governor quashed construction of desperately needed tunnels. And then obstructed more traffic over a bridge. It's not just bridges that are trophies to a decaying nation.
How many consider those crash videos from only one bridge acceptable? That is the definition of an American who would rather waste money on bogus wars and enrich himself rather than make America great. The people who say it costs too much - business school graduates.