• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    FFS that’s dumb, that steel can’t be reused without being reforged (or whatever the term is)

    That broken bridge needs removed (hopefully recycled) and then a new one built in it’s place

    Hopefully it goes faster than the project to replace a bridge near me. It was built before WWI and it’s still there, the talks have been going on for decades.

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        7 months ago

        There is a bridge near me that was rebuild so cars can cross like 30 years ago. They had plans to repaint it, because it looks weathered. They put on 3 different kinds of paint to see which one would look best. The 3 samples are already weathered and peeling by now.

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      7 months ago

      And let me guess; hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on multiple studies figuring out whether or not the bridge should be replaced?

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 months ago

        Funnily enough no

        Everyone knows it needs replaced

        No one wants to agree on what should replace it though

        Basically 2 different jurisdictions want to replace the bridge and then either one will propose a plan that inevitably gets shot down and then it’s back to the drawing board

        So the money is being wasted there not on whether it should be replaced or not