Posted on 03/28/2024 8:20:42 PM PDT by bitt
Good article. Thanks for posting.
They’ll end up going so far over cost they will stop construction and put in a ferry - and charge $1k each way...
Even dropping anchor requires power.
I think we can rebuild if we get our priorities straight. The govt spends a lot of money on who knows what and I have a feeling it’s going to things if shouldn’t be - the illegal kind.
I posted this a couple of days ago about the decades long process to replace the 3/4 mile long I-75 bridge at Cincinnati.
In modern America? Are you kidding? You see how things get done around here. I 75 crosses the Ohio at Cincinnati. Kentucky, Ohio, DC and Cincinnati have been wrangling over how to replace the aging bridge for DECADES. Millions and millions of dollars in multiple studies, with every politician in two or three generations of them getting their hands on cash and getting in their woke, green opinions and limitations. It should actually start soon. The last cost estimate was $3.9B up from the 2022 estimate of $2.6B and take 8 years!
From the Cincinnati Enquirer 1963
“The Brent Spence Bridge opens to traffic after nearly three years of construction. It’s named for Congressman Brent Spence, a Democrat from Newport who served 31 years in the U.S. House. The $10 million project is the first new Ohio River bridge in Cincinnati since 1891. Designed to carry 80,000 vehicles daily, the bridge carried about 32,000 vehicles in its first 24 hours.”
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/4/18/the-brent-spence-boondoggle
I’ve been predicting it will be the George Floyd Memorial Bridge. Because Baltimordor.
America doesn’t need to build the bridge. It should be privately owned and erected.
There’s a similar size suspension bridge being built between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. Once the government got done fighting over the location and doing all their stupidity (already done in this case) the bridge has been going up quickly and is 100% privately owned.
Of course, this is Maryland and every democrat loser has to get his grimy piece of the pie.
Drivel
You may be right,but if Trump is elected, that bridge will be built in three years with US Steel.
Trump demands results. And he fires and replaces those who drag or grift.That is why he is so hated by the Deep State and the Dems...he interrupts their grift and puts the money saved to good use.
What US steel?
The rebuilt bridge will be concrete
Too late. She’s not a tranny but the Port commissioner is a black female democrat. https://dredgewire.com/karenthia-a-barber-appointed-first-black-woman-to-serve-as-maryland-port-commissioner/
The articles say she’s a great leader. Time to put up or shut up. Given the quality of everyone else in Maryland state administration she’s just another loser.
yeah....I know. Along with things like elevators, airliners, heck....pretty soon even doctors......and other things I try to avoid thanks to DEI.
Steel re-enforced concrete.
I’ve always been intrigued by the formation of sandbars near man made structures in rivers. The weirs near the new lock and dam @ Olmstead, IL, are an example, the supports for the I-24 bridge over the Ohio River are another. USACE has to dredge big time, immediately downstream of the latter, right out in the middle of the river, often. I’d say yearly at least.
Maybe somebody by now understands enough about such formation(s) that we could place rip-rap weirs or artificial islands upstream of a bridge such that Mo’ Nature creates sandbars that would protect the bridge supports, with a sort of self-scoured shipping channel between them. Essentially, let “Mom” do most of the material transport. That might take 2-3 years, but these bridges take years to build — make the creation of the artificial islands the 1st step.
Could this work? Maybe?
Granted it was a smaller project (tho’ still substantial), the collapsed main span of the Egner’s Ferry Bridge in KY was replaced in a few months...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggner%27s_Ferry_Bridge
The entire bridge was replaced in a bit over 4 years. There was not a big rush on the new bridge as the repaired bridge was deemed safe, but, IIRC the builders did cut the construction time of the new bridge by about a year.
Umm, you’re talking about Maryland, DEI central headquarters, Buttiboy and the Biden administration this time. Good luck with those incompetent hacks getting anything accomplished.
But it WON’T BE CALLED THE FRANCIS SCOTT KEY BRIDGE!
The thing that totally gets me, the media hyped de industrialization, like it was something wonderful! They said we are now an information society! And, the media never paid paid any price for spreading this harmful narrative to the American public. And, some people were dumb enough to believe the media! They were not exposed for the propagandists that they are,back then.
The Biden administration will direct Buttigieg to form a study comittee. They will hire a troupe to perform an interpretive bridge building dance that shuns the white supremecist notions of classical engineering and physics while focusing on the wisdom of marginalized peoples to re-imagine the ways of bridge building.
$120 million will be spent on the study. The resulting plan will outline which groups are most likely to be negatively impacted by the bridge. It will include a directive on hiring planning and engineering personnel from under represented groups.
No plans for an actual bridge will be in the resulting documents. The Biden administration will trumpet a victory and blame Trump and the Republicans for withholding 12 billion in funding for the bridge, because 5 billion for democrat NGO money laundering groups and 30 billion for money laundering in Ukraine is included in the “Rebuild the Bridge” Act.
Replacing the World Trade Center involved much wasted time and countless controversies and battles!❗
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