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This Will Be major Fuck-Up
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Not just bridges, infrastructure in trouble all over. I'd like to see a fed work project similar to FDR days. But then what do I know?
http://www.vice.com/read/america-is-coll...ltdown-130
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
 (July 20, 2015 at 5:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(July 20, 2015 at 5:08 pm)Beccs Wrote: Wasn't it a GOP candidate who recently said they can repair bridges OR provide benefits to the elderly, but not both? What a bunch of pricks.
Dying to live, living to die.
Not only bridges.
http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/dams/ Quote:The average age of the 84,000 dams in the country is 52 years old. The nation’s dams are aging and the number of high-hazard dams is on the rise. Many of these dams were built as low-hazard dams protecting undeveloped agricultural land. However, with an increasing population and greater development below dams, the overall number of high-hazard dams continues to increase, to nearly 14,000 in 2012. The number of deficient dams is estimated at more than 4,000, which includes 2,000 deficient high-hazard dams. The Association of State Dam Safety Officials estimates that it will require an investment of $21 billion to repair these aging, yet critical, high-hazard dams.
The bridge in question had been declared "functionally obsolete" in 2014.
"Functionally obsolete" seems to mean that although structurally sound the bridge was insufficient for the amount of traffic it was getting.
Hope this works. Will give our European cousins an idea of the distances involved.
https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/arizona.mp...7/-114.922 For the hell of it I checked out California Rt 62 on Google Maps and Street View shows it to be a two-lane road.... one in each direction. Good luck with that. To give a sense of scale, yesterday one of our dog rescue volunteers drove from No. Phoenix ( near where it says Sun City on the map) to Wellton just east of Yuma to recover a dog that was originally picked up by the Border Patrol. It was a 3 1/2 hour trip each way.
So the temporary solution has been to route traffic onto the westbound bridge - one lane in each direction - thereby creating monumental traffic jams in each direction as everyone merges into one lane. Meanwhile Congress continues to dither like the fucking losers they are.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/taking-a...structure/ Quote:Taking a road trip this summer? Enjoy America’s crumbling infrastructure  (July 20, 2015 at 5:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(July 20, 2015 at 5:08 pm)Beccs Wrote: Wasn't it a GOP candidate who recently said they can repair bridges OR provide benefits to the elderly, but not both? Right, because taking the money from the military would heartless. Assholes. Quote:The Association of State Dam Safety Officials estimates that it will require an investment of $21 billion to repair these aging, yet critical, high-hazard dams. Cut 10% of the military's operational buget (that is, the portion of their budget dedicated to actually conducting military operations), and we'll have something like 3.5 billion left over for hookers and blow.
Remember you have all these republicunt asswipes lining up to be "wartime presidents." And you want to take away all their shiny new toys.
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