Or build more freeways around it.
The question is, what now?
NOTHING, It’s way to expensive and time consuming to try and rebuild. File lawsuit after lawsuit to force compliance with all new environmental regulations. The last thing a Proud Democrat State needs is a Million Dirty ICE powered vehicles being delivered to their State for distribution to Republican States.
Gasp! Horrors!
If we can’t have new funding, we won’t be able to pay biden his bribe.
I think 20 years of environmental impact studies needs to be conducted first, and the impact on climate change of course, along with making sure no native American burial sites are disturbed or any rare snail endangered.
They will break the bank. Everyone is going to get paid. That’s all it matters. Even better if it lasts for 10 years.
That way there are no pesky insurance company investigators turning over rocks and finding icky things.
You can be sure Biden’s cabal will do everything imaginable to make rebuilding the bridge cost way more than it should.
AOC, who has actually been on a boat with one, has recommended replacing it with a flying bridge. Powered by solar energy of course!
Put Trump’s crew on it. They rebuilt a bridge in NYC for half the cost and time that was estimated, and they did a better job.
I think we FReepers saw this one coming a couple days ago.
Hire illegal immigrants at $3.00 a hour?
They will break the bank and *not* repair or replace the bridge.
A more relevant headline for the union/Democrat mob that will try to rebuild is “How to Repair the FSK Bridge in less than 30 years.” If they do that they’ll break Jerry Brown’s record of 30, which, by the way, was also built using bad parts from China.
I would think that the cost should be footed by the company that insured the ship
Don’t forget about the huge impact to rail traffic
Poor old Biden offering to pay the whole cost of the bridge without taking into account litigation. What a schmuck.
Make it a toll bridge and up the fees to cross! A toll road turnpike can be in in 4 years while a free road may take 20 years for the same distance.
Toll roads built 70 years ago were supposed to be free by now but are still toll roads as the states cannot give up that cash cow!
The “free trade” thing does not work(**) without dirt cheap high seas transportation(##) that, by international agreement, has “practically” the lowest “environmental emissions standards” on the planet.
** The low cost of production of goods from “over there.”
## Huge ships built to barely survive stable seas, with one main engine, and a “direct shaft assembly” with no gearbox between engine and prop - super glorified but helpless barges.
Is that legally binding, or just FJB shooting off his senile face again? The ship's insurer should pay for the replacement bridge, not U.S. taxpayers.