I guess a lot of you saw the news of the big fire underneath a bridge on I-85, a major interstate highway through Atlanta. This bridge runs over Piedmont Rd., a major thoroughfare in Atlanta. What it did to rush hour traffic Thursday was horrifying. To repair the bridge will result in shutting down that section of I-85 and that section of Piedmont Rd. for months. 250,000 cars a day pass over that bridge. This is a disaster. So who is the asshole? The people who decided it was a good idea to store highly flammable plastic under the bridge. Heads should roll over this.
It’ll be lucky if it is only months. They recently finished replacing the north and the south bridges on I71 over the Cuyahoga river in Cleveland. Over budget and late sections of the bridges were closed for around 8yrs.
This is super priority. Should take less than six months (hopefully).
No, the bastard is whoever set the stuff on fire.
I was happily surprised that the number of fatalities was zero.
Here’s what I don’t get. We can go to another country. Blow their shit up to pieces. Then, because we have a conscious and will do what’s right, we rebuild for them. We can send our military construction units over there and rebuild entire city infrastructure in a matter of weeks to months. WTF can’t we get a small span of bridge built in a couple of weeks? Can you say Unions? Can you say city/state employees? Yeah, that’s gotta be the problem.
Rayvet …It does not take much time to rebuild mud & stick huts to live in or clean out bomb craters for public latrines. that pretty much covers the infrastructure of a typical shitholestan city.
Ask for bids with a closing date of a week ahead. Offer bonuses for early completion. Any nepotism or bribery will result in execution by bein’ turned over to Michael Vick for dog food.
Turn the private sector loose, get out of the way and the job’ll be done in record time.
3 arrested for fire.
3 homeless people.
They were smoking crack and set the fire. Let’s play guess their race, shall we?
Fox News just reported.
Though they will rarely if ever do it with the unions in the government sector, I worked in Yonkers, NY on a series of sugar silos that had to be continually be formed and poured as they went up. No stopping.
The point being, we were a private construction company and made a deal with the unions that we were to work three eight hour shifts. It put more people to work, saved having overtime and the work was completed under schedule.
Every time I see a public project sit for days or at least over night I always wonder why the geniuses behind running the work never consider working in this manner. It would complete the work faster and save the public a lot of headaches.
Hoover Dam came in ahead of schedule and under budget. No way that could happen today.
Why not work more efficiently? Why bother? You get to be boss of this very important project for just that much longer – have all of these people working for you – and maybe there’s a little chance for skimming a little here and there.
I believe that’s partly why the generals didn’t want to use the bomb on Japan. Suddenly, they’re not nearly as important.
I’m sure it was WHITE pvc pipe and therefore deserved to be set on fire!
Just a theory. . .
I figure they could use ‘cribbing’ on the southbound lanes if there was worry about collaps due to heat damage, and reverse them as demand swapped. That would allow at least one direction open daily, closable on weekends, while work went on the other side.
I have seen cribbing(8″X8″ or 10X10 lengths of lumber, like railroad ties, used as cribbing while raised ramps were under construction in the SF Bay Area 20 years ago. Traffic went happily by, ignorant and blissful.
If GDOT wants to get I-85 open, temporary support of those lanes would allow repair of the northbound as the same time.
The stored tubing is not readily set afire, it takes good effort to get it burning. Normal people would not have set it burning, and you cannot protect from every calamity.
tom in Canton
I don’t think they want to take a chance on the southbound lanes as they are too damaged to be used temporarily even with cribbing so they will be demolished. I like the idea of opening one span to two way traffic when it is finished but don’t know if GDOT will do that. The fire was set by a homeless crackhead who put a chair on a shopping cart and lit the chair on fire. Any guesses as to the race of the homeless crackhead? If you picked Negro, you are correct. I’m sure it was a result of slavery and 400 years of oppression.
Here is the culprit of the bridge burning:
http://nypost.com/2017/04/02/crack-smoking-homeless-man-sparked-massive-highway-fire-cops/
Yep. The same picture that was in this morning’s AJC. His public defender is trying to hide his face with the folder but not doing a very good job. I’m sure you are surprised at his race. This must be the fault of white privilege.
A shout out to the manager of Shiloh Inn in Klamath Falls for posting the following: there is no coffee, sorry for the inconvenience. No coffee at a hotel is not an inconvenience, it’s a friggin’ disaster …