• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Oh, you bright and wonderful soul, untarnished by the knowledge of the depths of Musk’s stupidity, I envy you. I envy you and will destroy your blissful ignorance: he suggested reusing the collapsed truss steel.

    You know, steel! The material that deals fantastically with being bent and twisted and doesn’t lose any strength at all from it! 😬

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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?

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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