Figg Bridge again.
Feel safer yet?
PING!
What a sexist decision.
Is there a Sam Houston Interstate Tollway?
There’s a joke in there somewhere about changing horses mid stream. But alas, it is intuitively small. So I will abandon this humor ship mid stream. In before someone retorts ‘that ferry never left the shoreline.’
Without analyzing a lot of technical detail, it would be hard for even competent engineers in the field to know whether this move was justified. Regardless, this is likely to have horrible consequences even if horrible consequences of a different type were avoided... cost overruns, completion delays, lack of confidence in the end-product, lawsuits, bankruptcies etc.
They’ve already done a good deal of work on the bridge, so this must have been pretty bad. But if it was a unanimous decision, they probably have good reason. The three Dems on the Commissioner’s Court are terrible and I don’t know the Republican who replaced Radack, but I know and trust Jack Cagle to do the right thing.
The replacement sunshine skyway bridge built in 1987 has to be an illusion. Only white male engineers and contractors were involved.
How was it possible to build a bridge without diversity?
They apparently did not learn from the fiasco in which they paid a foreign company millions to build a new interchange at the 610 south loop and I45. The company walked away with the money, driving up taxpayer costs and creating huge delays (years-long) when a the contractor was replaced. I never actually heard about it in the news, but I met a rep of the contractor who they brought in to fix it.