Baltimore bridge hit by container ship, major collapse

Hawkeye10 said:
More than a year and a half later rebuilding has not even started:

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The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) is rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge to reconnect and restore a vital transportation link.
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Nothing new there. Construction of anything today is a convoluted process of endless red tape in safety issues, environmental reports, engineering that is risk adverse, drenched in lawsuits, and absolutely buried in rules and regulations.

Look at the Oakland Bay Bridge. A section collapsed in the Northridge earthquake in the 90's. It took longer to repair and cost more to do so than the entire bridge did (in corrected dollars) originally.

Same thing here. The replacement has to be better than perfect and that costs massive piles of time and money.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Nothing new there. Construction of anything today is a convoluted process of endless red tape in safety issues, environmental reports, engineering that is risk adverse, drenched in lawsuits, and absolutely buried in rules and regulations.

Look at the Oakland Bay Bridge. A section collapsed in the Northridge earthquake in the 90's. It took longer to repair and cost more to do so than the entire bridge did (in corrected dollars) originally.

Same thing here. The replacement has to be better than perfect and that costs massive piles of time and money.
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That last year the estimate was $2 billion, and now it is 5+....is interesting.

When it is done it will be what......6-7?
 
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