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A Quarter of America's Bridges May Collapse Within 26 Years. We Saw the Whole Thing Coming.
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Can't fix the bridges because giving Jim Bob a 20 minute detour for 8 weeks is the end of the world for our just in time manufacturing systems.
As we found out in Minneapolis around 2011 I think, you get very long detours when major bridges collapse.
Or Baltimore in 2024
Or like.. 12 days when I-95 collapsed.
To be fair, they filled underneath that bridge in and paved over it in 12 days. I95 was the major priority and they could ignore the off ramp for the time being. Building the bridge took much longer even with great deal of manpower and equipment dedicated to it.
And we lack adquate public transit infrastructure, so the system can't handle the increase in traffic.