Posted on 03/28/2024 8:20:42 PM PDT by bitt
The recent bridge collapse in Baltimore is an absolute nightmare, and our thoughts are with the victims and their families during this incredibly tough time. Beyond the heart-wrenching loss and the basic “whys” everyone’s dealing with, there’s one crucial question not many are asking: Can America rebuild the bridge?
Sure, it might seem odd to wonder about our capability to build a bridge in 2024, but sadly, it’s a valid concern these days. When you consider how our nation is faltering under inept globalist rule, dragged down by dangerous DEI agendas that place “charity” over excellence, and watching the decimation of hardworking middle-class America, the question isn’t just rhetorical—it’s a stark reflection of our abysmal current reality.
Revolver has been calling attention to this decline in American society for quite some time, starting from when Biden first introduced his “infrastructure bill.” Fast forward three years, and here we are: bridges collapsing, roads deteriorating, and let’s not even dive into the chaos unfolding in our skies or the sorry state of our airports. Meanwhile, as China makes serious strides forward, it feels like we’re just spinning our wheels, stuck in neutral. It’s a stark contrast that highlights where our priorities have been misplaced and the need for a serious reevaluation of how we invest in our nation’s future.
Revolver:
Infrastructure has been a popular cause on the right since Donald Trump’s presidential run began six years ago, and for good reason. If President Trump had started his first term with a massive bipartisan infrastructure project that included the Wall, rather than following GOP hack Paul Ryan’s tax cut agenda, the country would almost certainly be better off. Spending money to develop America and improve the lives of citizens is a much better use of the country’s wealth than fighting forever wars in the Hindu Kush or simply keeping half the country on the dole in one form or another.
But there needs to be a degree of realism as well: In the country America has become, it’s never as simple as just spending money on infrastructure instead of warfare and welfare. Without truly ambitious, far-reaching reforms, and a competent non-corrupt leadership class to implement them, infrastructure is either a spoils system for special interest clients, or simply an expensive effort to maintain a crumbling status quo.
This is the real tragedy of the infrastructure bill. It’s not just about waste, excessive expense, incompetence, or special interest grift, though all that is there and it is impossible to imagine a major bill without these corruptions. It’s also, at a deeper level, about the disappearance of greatness from our national spirit. Fifty-two years ago, the United States sent men to the moon. Today, America is no longer capable of a moon-landing level national project — in fact, America may literally be incapable of an actual moon landing, too. Regardless, this infrastructure bill aspires to nothing of the sort.
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Good article. Thanks for posting.
They’ll end up going so far over cost they will stop construction and put in a ferry - and charge $1k each way...
Even dropping anchor requires power.
I think we can rebuild if we get our priorities straight. The govt spends a lot of money on who knows what and I have a feeling it’s going to things if shouldn’t be - the illegal kind.
I posted this a couple of days ago about the decades long process to replace the 3/4 mile long I-75 bridge at Cincinnati.
In modern America? Are you kidding? You see how things get done around here. I 75 crosses the Ohio at Cincinnati. Kentucky, Ohio, DC and Cincinnati have been wrangling over how to replace the aging bridge for DECADES. Millions and millions of dollars in multiple studies, with every politician in two or three generations of them getting their hands on cash and getting in their woke, green opinions and limitations. It should actually start soon. The last cost estimate was $3.9B up from the 2022 estimate of $2.6B and take 8 years!
From the Cincinnati Enquirer 1963
“The Brent Spence Bridge opens to traffic after nearly three years of construction. It’s named for Congressman Brent Spence, a Democrat from Newport who served 31 years in the U.S. House. The $10 million project is the first new Ohio River bridge in Cincinnati since 1891. Designed to carry 80,000 vehicles daily, the bridge carried about 32,000 vehicles in its first 24 hours.”
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/4/18/the-brent-spence-boondoggle
I’ve been predicting it will be the George Floyd Memorial Bridge. Because Baltimordor.
America doesn’t need to build the bridge. It should be privately owned and erected.
There’s a similar size suspension bridge being built between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. Once the government got done fighting over the location and doing all their stupidity (already done in this case) the bridge has been going up quickly and is 100% privately owned.
Of course, this is Maryland and every democrat loser has to get his grimy piece of the pie.
Drivel
You may be right,but if Trump is elected, that bridge will be built in three years with US Steel.
Trump demands results. And he fires and replaces those who drag or grift.That is why he is so hated by the Deep State and the Dems...he interrupts their grift and puts the money saved to good use.
What US steel?
The rebuilt bridge will be concrete
Too late. She’s not a tranny but the Port commissioner is a black female democrat. https://dredgewire.com/karenthia-a-barber-appointed-first-black-woman-to-serve-as-maryland-port-commissioner/
The articles say she’s a great leader. Time to put up or shut up. Given the quality of everyone else in Maryland state administration she’s just another loser.
yeah....I know. Along with things like elevators, airliners, heck....pretty soon even doctors......and other things I try to avoid thanks to DEI.
Steel re-enforced concrete.
I’ve always been intrigued by the formation of sandbars near man made structures in rivers. The weirs near the new lock and dam @ Olmstead, IL, are an example, the supports for the I-24 bridge over the Ohio River are another. USACE has to dredge big time, immediately downstream of the latter, right out in the middle of the river, often. I’d say yearly at least.
Maybe somebody by now understands enough about such formation(s) that we could place rip-rap weirs or artificial islands upstream of a bridge such that Mo’ Nature creates sandbars that would protect the bridge supports, with a sort of self-scoured shipping channel between them. Essentially, let “Mom” do most of the material transport. That might take 2-3 years, but these bridges take years to build — make the creation of the artificial islands the 1st step.
Could this work? Maybe?
Granted it was a smaller project (tho’ still substantial), the collapsed main span of the Egner’s Ferry Bridge in KY was replaced in a few months...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggner%27s_Ferry_Bridge
The entire bridge was replaced in a bit over 4 years. There was not a big rush on the new bridge as the repaired bridge was deemed safe, but, IIRC the builders did cut the construction time of the new bridge by about a year.
Umm, you’re talking about Maryland, DEI central headquarters, Buttiboy and the Biden administration this time. Good luck with those incompetent hacks getting anything accomplished.
But it WON’T BE CALLED THE FRANCIS SCOTT KEY BRIDGE!
The thing that totally gets me, the media hyped de industrialization, like it was something wonderful! They said we are now an information society! And, the media never paid paid any price for spreading this harmful narrative to the American public. And, some people were dumb enough to believe the media! They were not exposed for the propagandists that they are,back then.
The Biden administration will direct Buttigieg to form a study comittee. They will hire a troupe to perform an interpretive bridge building dance that shuns the white supremecist notions of classical engineering and physics while focusing on the wisdom of marginalized peoples to re-imagine the ways of bridge building.
$120 million will be spent on the study. The resulting plan will outline which groups are most likely to be negatively impacted by the bridge. It will include a directive on hiring planning and engineering personnel from under represented groups.
No plans for an actual bridge will be in the resulting documents. The Biden administration will trumpet a victory and blame Trump and the Republicans for withholding 12 billion in funding for the bridge, because 5 billion for democrat NGO money laundering groups and 30 billion for money laundering in Ukraine is included in the “Rebuild the Bridge” Act.
Replacing the World Trade Center involved much wasted time and countless controversies and battles!❗
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