Posted on 09/25/2018 7:38:04 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Sounds to me that the engineers where the ground is concerned in this area are IDIOTS!!! Two HUGE problems like this in the same area sounds like the ground is sandy and foundations weren’t built to handle the settling of such soft earth!!! MORONS!!! Earthquakes in SF are horrible the whole area is sandy soft ground damage is always horrible!!! You couldn’t pay me to live in a high rise in SF!!!
I don’t want to be anywhere near that SOB when the next big earth quake hits SF.
San Francisco is the city of my birth, thank GOD my mother moved us out of there when I was 3 years old.
And why did I say I don’t want to be anywhere near that thing, the only way any body would ever get me back into SF is by dragging my cold, rotting, body back into that CESSPIT.
This is the way the world will end. This the way the world will end...not with a bang, but a whimper.
The former mayor who broke ground on this project and helped funnel more than a quarter billion in city funds to bail it (and the corporate tower) out is indeed the current Lt. Governor who is in a two man run off for governor of California.
You can bet on how he stands on Gov Brown’s little choo-choo.
Even though I’m starting to see Cox signs, without actual effort it’d take video of Newsom with a woman to derail his election at this point. (Boys would probably just get him more votes...)
It’ll likely be another 3 billion to actually ‘finish’ the terminal once you count in CalTrain and the ‘High Speed Rail To Nowhere...’ The solution, of course, is to raise the sales tax, raise the bridge tolls, tax companies in SF, etc, etc, etc to pay for it.
‘cause liberals love to always increase taxes.
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I wonder what Sen. Feinstein might have to say about that...
Dare I compare this to the FIU Bridge collapse a while back?
Style over structure, Stylish over competent engineers perhaps?
Having welded for a living.
Having been raised on a farm.
Having seen a lot of farmers weld.
I would not let most near it.
Is the steel from China?
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Exactly my thought.
Bet it is, low bidder.
That! Is an earthquake disaster waiting to happen.
Here in Seattle they had to tear down a 14-story building that was only about six years old. Somebody didn’t put a little dab of epoxy at the ends of the rebar and/or tension cables where they were exposed. The steel started rusting - and after another few million dollars of trying, they couldn’t stop it.
Oh - the building was built by and for the Carpenter’s Union!
Union slavery state steel is prob just as bad as China steel. I have observed union workers during my limited travel.. i am sure there are exceptions, but they didnt impress me a quality producers.
They couldn’t properly build the new Bay Bridge either.
And as pointed out, the leaning tower of S.F.
“I wonder how much of that money actually went to the project?”
Isn’t that the real goal of such a massive never ending project with no price ceiling? To line pockets with kickbacks at the expense of those that actually work while using such a project to get votes?
He does not believe the problem is related to a sinking condominium building next door.
Cracked beams, sinking buildings...
The problem is very obvious.
They built over a sacred Indian burial grounds/casino site.
Return it to the Indians.
The Mohawk Indian ironworkers can deal with the beam.
If there’s any federal money in this Charlie foxtrot, there needs to be a federal investigation.
If you can see a crack then it is really bad. There are all the other cracks you do not see that are even worse. The bridge in Minnesota that fell down was like that. Hidden cracks until they ripped open due to add’ll loads from traffic and construction.
-PJ
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