LostInTyme
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The infrastructure bill didn't come in time for this one. No one was killed.
I'm pretty sure very few people of sound mind, health, and ecomomic security live under bridges by choice. Especially in the dead of Pa's winter. Regardless, my best guess is cheap design, shoddy contracting, poor inspections and maint. are far more likely to blame. Expect more of these failures to come. You get what you pay for, and tolerate.Homeless camps & people living more or less permanently under bridges can do a lot of damage. A recent fire under a bridge in KC killed a 28 yr old woman among those living under there. They had the area under the bridge almost totally rocked up for privacy & to hold the heat in from their fires. They had 2x4's overhead running across between the bottom flanges of the steel girders with bedding above where they slept overhead. So much trash & crap under there it was like an inferno & when the fire got out of hand the others living under there deserted leaving the victim's body behind.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article257335137.html
I’m just going to drop this in here as a fact check, then leave this all behind before things turn bad.I agree. Today, I learned that in Pennsylvania, bridge inspections and the reports there-of are deliberately kept SECRET from the public. This is state law. Sounds much like a conspiracy to keep the people the dark and risking their lives needlessly when they may be in danger.
I simply will leave that comment alone.I'm pretty sure very few people of sound mind, health, and ecomomic security live under bridges by choice. Especially in the dead of Pa's winter. Regardless, my best guess is cheap design, shoddy contracting, poor inspections and maint. are far more likely to blame. Expect more of these failures to come. You get what you pay for, and tolerate.
There's nothing "political" about failing critical infrastructure in an economy where growth is utterly dependant on the efficient, safe and reliable movement of goods, people and services. There is in America, however, politics as usual from the usuals in failing to properly fund development and and long-term maintenance.
Careful, Merv. you'll get called a socialist... or something or other by people who don't begin to understand the terms they try and hurl as insults. Rich how those who demand all the benifits of living in this country tirelessly avoid paying the costs of membership to Club America, while insisting others shoulder the burden.