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THE WEEK IN PICTURES: BUILDING BRIDGES BACK BETTER EDITION
Powerline ^ | 30 Mar 2024 | Steven Hayward

Posted on 03/30/2024 9:49:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Forget selling the Brooklyn Bridge to some gullible Democrat. How about a bridge in Baltimore? Here’s an idea: offer to name it the Donald Trump Bridge if Trump can get it rebuilt in six months? (With the proviso he doesn’t have to put up with any Baltimore/Buttigieg Bureaucratic nonsense.) Who doubts that he could do it? I suspect the building trades, steelworkers, etc., would work overtime at regular wages to make it happen. Because you know why they would.


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1 posted on 03/30/2024 9:49:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

The EPA will require environmental studies that will take years. If they plan to name the bridge the DJT Bridge then expect the EPA studies to take centuries.


2 posted on 03/30/2024 10:54:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Rummyfan

They’ll have to include train tracks this time for Choo Choo Joe


3 posted on 03/30/2024 11:12:54 AM PDT by sopo
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So far Martin Luther King, George Floyd and Freddie Gray have been proposed as names for the new bridge.

Francis Scott Key was a slaveowner so they can't name the new bridge after him.

Another possibility would be Alexander Cochrane, the British commander attacking Fort McHenry in 1814. He had earlier offered freedom to American slaves who joined the British forces.

4 posted on 03/30/2024 11:18:58 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

They’ll name the replacement after Winnie Mandela.


5 posted on 03/30/2024 11:34:56 AM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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