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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

There was never any intention to make everything 14 feet. That would bankrupt the country.

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.

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Babble babble, babble.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

An interstate standard height is (should be) standard for all bridges.

Should be? You said it was the national standard. It is not, there is no national standard.

Took friends from Europe to NYC.

Lie, you have no friends.
More irrelevant babble

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14 feet is not the size of your penis. Please try to comprehend what was written. Not what your extremist right hand tells you.

14 feet is also the requirement for all phone, cable, and telephone wires that cross over streets. If you were not an emotional child, you would have known that. It is a defacto national standard. Bridges at less than 14 feet remain due to contempt. Same contempt justifies a lie that fixing would cost too much. A fix that was done for less than $100,000 would somehow cost a $million.

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Back in the mid 1970s, a friend bought a house from the hospital for $1, moved it across town, and restored it. Adjacent was a railroad bridge at about 11 feet. Trucks would strike that bridge at least once a week. It was a normal neighborhood sound.

Just happened to be back in that state this week. NJ Transit (without interrupting service on their main line) raised that bridge almost three feet. It is only at 13 feet 11 inches. No problem. They simply jacked up the bridge, poured new concrete atop existing supports, and made the appropriate grade changes to the tracks. You can even see where cleaner, new concrete now supports that bridge.

Back then, that bridge was constantly scarred from recent strikes. I looked closely. Today, no scars from any trucks hitting that bridge. They fixed the problem rather than make excuses - ie deny that 14 foot is this nation's de facto standard.

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[xoxoxoBruce]

NJ Transit is the Toonerville Trolly of the railroad world, and owned by the state of NJ, so you know who paid for that bridge bump.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

NJ Transit is the Toonerville Trolly of the railroad world, and owned by the state of NJ, so you know who paid for that bridge bump.

That's emotioinal conclusion clearly is not supported by intelligent thought or knowledge.

NJ Transit is starved for cash. Last year being the Summer of Hell for commuters due to Gov Christie's constant budget cuts, no additional funding, and cancelling new construction. In that same town, a bridge for one of the most used roads has been closed for most of the past ten years. NJ Transit has that little money.

A bridge was raised almost three feet because is costs so little. And was hit weekly. Raising bridges is easy, inexpensive, and should be routine over the many decades. But people like Christie and xoxoxoBruce just say it cannot be done - using emotional logic.

Another bridge on the same railroad that demonstrates a problem that naysayers deny: