Posted on 03/31/2024 10:30:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg couldn’t give a time frame Sunday for when debris from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse will be cleared from the critical mega US shipping channel.
“We haven’t received a timeline yet,” the country’s top transportation chief told CBS’ “Face the Nation” of the massive expected clean-up of the wreckage from the destroyed Baltimore span, which runs roughly 1.6 miles over the Patapsco River, a key transportation route that handled a whopping $80 billion in cargo last year.
“This is going to be a very complex process, there are even now forces acting on that steel,” Buttigieg said. “So it takes a lot to make sure that it can be dismantled safely to make sure that the vessel stays where it is supposed to be and doesn’t swing out.”
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The munitions to do this should be on site already. The divers should have the area mapped out already. Plans to protect or replace underwater utility or communication lines should already be underway.
This ain't no Manhattan Project.
Keep the channel closed up through the election, so even if Biden loses, it becomes Trump’s problem.
It is not necessary to rebuild the bridge first. A demolition and removal operation should be able to take care of the channel blockage in days. When a ship was wedged in the Suez Canal in 2021, the salvage crews got the wreckage cleared in just six days.
Comes down to how important it is to restore the flow of commerce.
Bless his heart ¿
Not surprising...
I’m betting it will be close to the time that the INITIAL 60 billion has been thoroughly distributed to all corrupt communist entities in the U.S. and the call goes out for the taxpayers to raise the ante...
This boondoggle will similar to the Covid boondoggle as an enrichment process for communist politicians and groups, as well as another big lever to impose even more tyrannical controls on the peasants...
The American Communist Party just got its dreamed for pre-election event...
This little dork was unable to keep the potholes filled in South Bend. And he’s an authority on this process why?
Wow. That itself looks dangerous and needs care and planning.
There are dead people down there whose folks want their bodies to bury, with some apparently trapped under the fallen pieces of bridge.
The brilliance of homosexuals has always impressed me. I’ll bet his Zero Gs “advisors” and Tik Tok “influencers” told him to say that.
Whatever happened to the American can-do spirit that got the USS Yorktown repaired in 3 days to take part in Midway.
These know nothings even admit they know nothing. This guy gets paid by taxpayers to do nothing.
Buttboy has no mechanical concept of how to cleanup this mess. He is better versed on how to acquire maternity leave than to perform a major mechanical function.
A leader doesn’t say “I have no idea.” That’s what spineless bureaucrats say. A leader says “The channel will be opened in 30 days. The new bridge will be opened 5 years from today.”
My software company, and my good friend’s construction company would be out of business if we told customers “I have no idea.”
It's a complex process if you let it be a complex process. If you put smart people on a complex process, and get out of their way, it stops being complex pretty quickly and starts being a matter of doing some math and taking some calculated risks.
If you insist on having unqualified people meddle and second guess, and then preen for the cameras, smart people aren't going to be willing to do the math or take those calculated risks.
“This is going to be a very complex process”
Kinda like men having babies?
Alfred E. Newman cracks me up.
5.56mm
Not a clue as most appointees of this criminal and his administration, ITS WHAT YOU ARE NOT WHO YOU ARE
It’s a pile of angle iron, for crying out loud. And not very thick angle iron. Forty guys with acetylene torches could have that sectioned out and gone in two weeks.
Libs are dumb and evil, telling lies to the dumb evil public.
They want this to be a three year union job.
Several FR demolition & salvage experts assured us it would be cleared in two weeks.
It took these government buffoons a week to find out about the pipeline. The DOT has regulatory authority over every pipeline in the country. “Didn’t earn it” buttgiggety is a simpleton moron.
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