In a normal world, infrastructure damage with an impact as large as this would be fixed in a week or two. For anyone not familiar with the east coast of the US, this is the north-south corridor which runs from Miami, Florida to the Canadian border in Maine. There are alternative routes for through traffic (namely the NJ Turnpike) but diverted traffic is going to be a nightmare while we wait for this to be repaired.
Officials said there was no threat to the city's water supply and that there were no concerns of any environmental impact from the incident.
oh good, small silver lining
The U.S. Coast Guard is also monitoring the potential for 8,500 gallons of vehicle fuel to leak into the nearby Delaware River.
oh right, they always lie about that bit. at least the 3 hour long WTYP ep on this is going to be great.
Looking forward to :wtyp-gang: doing some on scene reporting for the episode on this
If this was as China or Japan we'd see one of those YouTube videos of a time lapse rebuilding of the roadway in 1 week.
Comrade Stalin would have had new rebar and forms in place before the last of the concrete hit the ground.
But at what cost?? - every news publication ever
Can't wait for it to collapse lmao - every Redditor ever (for the next decade despite it showing no structural issues)
They'll then discuss about how much death and damage it'd do to the Chinese people if they blew it up with an F-35
Eagerly awaiting the WTYP episode, especially since this happened in the boys' hometown.
working triple shifts to get it done vs. the graft-ridden american process where both the contractors and unions are mafia outfits
"Let's make the people building critical infrastructure exhaust themselves working triple shifts" doesn't sound like the best idea
that isn't what triple shifts means. 8 hours x 3 shifts = 24. it means you have 3 people working three shifts instead of 1 person working 1 shift, so the site is constantly open with prep, material delivery/staging, demolition/clean up, inspections etc.
https://hexbear.net/post/272284/comment/3525953
You essentially need a stockpile of pre-assembled replacement parts to do something like this, so it will never happen here with just-in-time manufacturing. On the same note, we are beyond megafucked if and when we get hit by "The Big One®" solar flare edition.
2017 I-85 Atlanta Collapse to Repair Duration: 44 Days (1 month ahead of schedule)
if they milk this for more than 80 days, somebody playin'.
Yeah even with how things usually go in PA, this should "only" take 60 days at the most.
Imagine they found "his" ID completely unscathed from the massive fire and it identifies him as a Russian or Chinese man
Boom, 9/11 2.0 and we're off to world war 3
I think this time around he was just some guy, but I'm surprised there hasn't been an attempt to make it political yet lol
More like they don't want to put adequate number of workers to fix it.
Everyone loves to drag their feet when it comes to building infrastructure, yet "build more infrastructure" is pretty bipartisan.
Look at California's high speed rail, they're practically begging voters to make them stop at this point because they just don't want to build the damn thing, so they put poison pill after poison pill in.
Its so short-sighted, do they truly think that there will be no consequences? That america will be the big thing, if they let it decay into rubbish?
I was reading the Strong Towns book recently, and Charles Mahron made the argument that America probably cannot even pay for all this infrastructure even if it wants to, hence why dense, walkable cities are so important even from a libertarian POV.
But the thing is: they just don't want to even if the infrastructure god descended from the sky and gave the US infinite funds, and if that's the case, why the fuck do we build a ton of sprawling expensive infrastructure, and worse, sprawling expensive infrastructure that we are going to treat as DISPOSABLE? I know the answer, something something capitalism and contradictions.
