Posted on 04/04/2024 8:12:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
That will make it likely to hinder timely completion once work starts, as well as, fail sooner as well. 👍
Back in the day, they had some gold for that final spike.
Not any more.
Gold is in the corrupt pockets and the spike is our hearts.
Related, in opposition
You forgot political graft and seeing that a good chunk of that money goes to illegals.
Remember Boston’s Big Dig? Or California’s high speed rail?
Unions, government over-reach, graft, fraud... They’ll be lucky to get it done at all...
Big Dig all over again. Bank on it.
Baltimore survived before the bridge, and they will survive afterwards. Cheaper just to send the traffic around the harbor. Expand whatever beltway is there a couple of lanes.
Do you a picture of the current one?
My great grandfather and my grandfather different sides of the family - one helped put the gargoyles on the Chrysler building the other created and placed the ornamental platering in radio city music hall
We had a bricklaying company in the family like many Irish defiant NINAs did. They had a contract to help build the Empiere State building
It was built in under a year. It’s not a crappy structure like you see now. It has marble and good Otis elevators.
They built it Drung the Great Depression. Partly to encourage Americans and the western world
That was before the communists took over our country
The ramps and approaches are already there. That’s the hard work.
All they need to do is put in a new span with some pier protections.
Clean up the mess and wait for Trump.
Problem solved.
But maybe that’s the problem, hmmm...
That was the function of the Francis Scott Key bridge, built in the 1970s,
Expand whatever beltway is there a couple of lanes.
Do I understand correctly that you don't live within 1000 miles of Baltimore, have never been to Baltimore, and have no knowledge whatever of the Baltimore traffic pattern?
True, but how many of those workers are still in the concrete?
To be fair, technology was far more advanced in 1863.
That ‘final spike’ was a publicity set-up.
The builders were not stopping to ‘meet up’.
They were being paid ‘by the mile’ and the two ‘ends’ did not meet until government and public outcry caused the situation to be eliminated.
There are to this day two parallel tracks that went past each other for 25 miles.....................
The bridge will be twice as long and twice as wide as the old one.
You left out the bicycle lanes going in either direction, plus the ordinary walk ways, since pedestrians cannot be allowed to use either bike or wheelchair lanes.
Better add more to the cost, more time to completion, and more width to the bridge.
Ironically, replacing a major bridge after a total collapse actually has a FASTER timeline than a project to build a new one or rehabilitate/replace an old one that is obsolete. There are two factors at work here:
1. When a bridge is constructed to replace one that has been taken out of commission unexpectedly due to a disaster, the normal environmental review requirements are waived as long as the new bridge is an "in-kind" replacement of the original one.
2. When a bridge is rehabilitated or replaced as a planned capital project, one of the factors that greatly extends the timeline for completion is the need to keep the old bridge open for traffic while the new one is constructed in stages. This is why it takes far less time to build a new bridge from the ground up than it does to build one in multiple stages to accommodate normal traffic operations as much as possible.
Of course the railroad was built with massive amounts of corruption. Basically giving a bunch of rich people blank checks, which got us on our path of government by corporation that we’re still suffering from today. So not really a great yardstick.
Lets hope it doesn’t take as long as the California Bullet Train is taking.......
Isn’t that backwards?
Isn’t Congress supposed to send a spending request to the President for approval?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.