The bridge carries I-40 traffic across the Mississippi River. Seems like non-destructive testing should have found this way before the actual break. Also looks like a crack on the left side of the beam in the photo.
This is really, really, really embarassing and bad. We need to stop with the Martian Hyperloop fantasies and tax rich people so we can, at minimum, take care of our infrsatructure.
SneakyPete
May 14, 21 12:53 pm
That is terrifying.
Miles Jaffe
May 14, 21 1:37 pm
There is no profit on maintenance, just a tax bill to pay some laborers. But with big shiny fantasy projects there are tens of billions in profits and even more in cost overruns that reward all the usual suspects. Failure of the existing infrastructure is cited as the reason for the new projects ...
that's the model applied in most "trickle-down" economies; when corporate shills get into government, they make a functioning program fail, then justify going private and awarding contracts to their friends and family.
x-jla
May 14, 21 3:38 pm
Private construction companies take on a huge amount of liability for such a project. It’s within their own self interest to make sure that it doesn’t fail. Regardless, when you replace the word
private with government,
Miles Jaffe
May 14, 21 3:38 pm
Exactly.
x-jla
May 14, 21 3:39 pm
It’s not going to eliminate corruption or ensure quality.
tduds
May 14, 21 3:51 pm
There's plenty of money to be made on maintenance. What's missing is the political glory moment. Hard to claim credit and boost your profile when there's no big ribbon cutting ceremony, so instead they throw dollars at new shiny objects to stand in front of. It's a magpie culture we're livin in.
JLC-1
May 14, 21 4:26 pm
65% of my work is updating houses built 40-30 years ago, plenty of money in maintenance.
"that's the model applied in most "trickle-down" economies; when corporate shills get into government, they make a functioning program fail, then justify going private and awarding contracts to their friends and family."
This is the Chicago Boys style of government advocacy for the private sector. "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein details this quite well and is a fairly digestible read for how trickle-down neo-liberalism as a model of economic control has been invading the public sector for decades. First perfected abroad, and then deployed domestically.
The bridge carries I-40 traffic across the Mississippi River. Seems like non-destructive testing should have found this way before the actual break. Also looks like a crack on the left side of the beam in the photo.
On Infrastructure Week no less! How embarrassing.
Duct tape will fix that right up.
I heard Gorilla Glue is pretty strong
Sobo is actually the best of them all.
JB Weld
not enough structural green paint
This is really, really, really embarassing and bad. We need to stop with the Martian Hyperloop fantasies and tax rich people so we can, at minimum, take care of our infrsatructure.
That is terrifying.
There is no profit on maintenance, just a tax bill to pay some laborers. But with big shiny fantasy projects there are tens of billions in profits and even more in cost overruns that reward all the usual suspects. Failure of the existing infrastructure is cited as the reason for the new projects ...
Economics at work.
Report Card on America's Infrastructure
https://infrastructurereportca...
that's the model applied in most "trickle-down" economies; when corporate shills get into government, they make a functioning program fail, then justify going private and awarding contracts to their friends and family.
Private construction companies take on a huge amount of liability for such a project. It’s within their own self interest to make sure that it doesn’t fail. Regardless, when you replace the word
private with government,
Exactly.
It’s not going to eliminate corruption or ensure quality.
There's plenty of money to be made on maintenance. What's missing is the political glory moment. Hard to claim credit and boost your profile when there's no big ribbon cutting ceremony, so instead they throw dollars at new shiny objects to stand in front of. It's a magpie culture we're livin in.
65% of my work is updating houses built 40-30 years ago, plenty of money in maintenance.
5 Stocks May Be Huge Winners From Infrastructure Spending Coming in 2021
buy buy buy!
"that's the model applied in most "trickle-down" economies; when corporate shills get into government, they make a functioning program fail, then justify going private and awarding contracts to their friends and family."
This is the Chicago Boys style of government advocacy for the private sector. "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein details this quite well and is a fairly digestible read for how trickle-down neo-liberalism as a model of economic control has been invading the public sector for decades. First perfected abroad, and then deployed domestically.
Imma leave this here:
^ Practical Engineering is a great site.
Contractor Informs Biden It’d Be Cheaper To Just Tear Down U.S. And Start Over
My kid cracked his iPhone screen and told me it’d be cheaper to just buy him the new iPhone.
it's cheaper to let them use the broken phone.
Btw this is the bridge repair sequence. I think after 6 weeks they are on to the permanent repair phase of the fix. Post post-tensioning if you will.