A Few Screws Loose on Achy-Breaky Bay Bridge

Townhall.com ^ | May 19 2013 | Debra J. Saunders

[DuncanWaring]

After all, what self-respecting politician would have the brass to show up and take credit for a dubious bridge built sixfold over budget?

Wasn't Boston's "Big Dig" tenfold over budget? Original quote, $2 billion, final bill, $20+ billion?

[ken in texas]

Bid low to get the job... make it up on the back end.

[NormsRevenge]

a bunch of dead Roman engineers are laughing in their tombs at this fiasco..

[Mr. Jeeves]

The biggest problem with America’s Crumbling Infrastructure (copyright AP, 2000) is that government can no longer be trusted to fix it.

[Tees Mom]

You don’t realize how true that is. I am in the nuclear business and thereis one company that specializes in low bidding and making it up on the end.

[Cicero]

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Lurker]

These clowns shouldn’t be trusted with an Erector Set.

[Mouton]

I guess using plans for the GGB built in the 30’s was too good for them, so they decided to come up with some hair brained CAD ones. Bolts which cannot handle tension swings and are hydrogen sensitive in an area prone to shakers, what could go wrong??

[informavoracious]

But the bridge is pretty. Isn’t that what counts?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It’s just a warm up for High Speed Rail, brought to you by La Familia Pelosi Construction Company, LLC.

[Chode]

Lebenhauer Enterprises???

[SES1066]

It is obviously BUSH’s FAULT!

[NormsRevenge]

Tear down a 1.6 billion dollar v. A 6.2 billion dollar bridge?

Hmmm... who knows?

Talk about your bridge to nowhere...

public safety first :-)

[roadcat]

I guess using plans for the GGB built in the 30’s was too good for them, so they decided to come up with some hair brained CAD ones. Bolts which cannot handle tension swings and are hydrogen sensitive in an area prone to shakers, what could go wrong??

The old Bay bridge was hit by a jet aircraft, and survived without problems. That's how good they built them in the 1930's. These new bolts snapped under a minor load.

[Mouton]

I did not know about the aircraft accident. I do know the old Key railway used to operate on the lower deck though.

[roadcat]

I remember that accident in 1968. The Navy jet just took off from Alameda Naval Air Station, where my dad worked. It hit about 15 feet above the upper roadbed in the trusses of the north span of the bridge, yes the section now being replace by the new bridge. Both of the two pilots died.

[Carry_Okie]

It’s just a warm up for High Speed Rail, brought to you by La Familia Pelosi Construction Company, LLC.

Nope, that's Feinstein's gig.

[Carry_Okie]

It is obviously BUSH’s FAULT!

Nope, it's Arnold's. Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser stopped the whole project, costing hundreds of millions because of the delay, pulled the plans out of Bechtel's capable hands without compensation for 35,000 engineering hours, and handed the whole job to his buddy Warren Buffet's buddy from Utah, Peter Kiewitt.