Paperwork, litigation, and regulatory horseshit can add years to projects. From Stephen Green at pjmedia.com:
Could it really take twice as long and four times as much money to replace the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge than it did to build it in the first place?
The Key Bridge was built at a cost (adjusted for inflation) of about $200 million. Replacing it could take a decade and cost $400 million to $800 million dollars, according to experts in what has become a dismal field.
“To actually recreate that whole transportation network” could take a decade or more, structural engineer Ben Schafer told USA Today on Wednesday. Huge projects, Schafer said, now take “rarely less than 10 years.”
Well, they didn’t use to.
By comparison, the Apollo program that put a man on the moon required seven years, eight months, and 23 days. And — this is the really exciting part — everything about Apollo, from the massive Saturn V rocket to the “tiny” flight computer, had to be created from scratch. Those seven-and-a-half years included a monthslong delay following the tragic loss of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee during an Apollo 1 dress rehearsal that ended in a deadly crew capsule fire.
Where it is located in Yankee land, you bet it will.
The Marilyn Moseby bridge might be open by 2040.
There is always plenty of room to destroy in the ruined republic.
Thanks UNI-Party for killing the golden goose.
Prices are headed up and saw a map that showed who would be effected the most.
Enjoy Hoover Dam, Golden Gate, Rushmore, because there won’t ever be any more.