Any over under for when they have it rebuilt? 1 yr? How do they resume boat traffic while doing the construction?
Anyone think season 2 of the wire was underrated?
WAG - 1.5 years at an absolute minimum.
I guess that's not an O/U... For that, say 2.5 years.
This would be a good time for somebody in a position of authority to step up and prove us wrong. I've said many times before that the US in 2024 would be incapable of building the interstate highway system from scratch, and we've all seen how assorted public works projects involving high-speed rail have gone. It's not like the technology here is complicated or anything -- we've just chosen as a society to make this sort of thing impossible.
somebody help me out as i'm light on the specifics ... didn't the US just rebuild a collapsed bridge in more like a few weeks vs 1+ years?
Are you referring to the section of I-95 in Philly where there was that truck fire that collapsed part of the road? If so, that's not a fair analogy as they basically just filled that underpass in and paved over it for now to get traffic going again. Basically made a bridge not-a-bridge and moved the issue to the smaller road that went under I-95.
Correct. The filled in the exit underpass. And created a temporary 4 lane road in about 12 days working around the clock. They then started to rebuild the outside lane overpass sections
That was completed in about 6 months. The inner lanes and exit are expected to be completed by May. So about 11 months total.
That is minor compared to this
Eta.... It's 8 lanes in that area
Plus probably 1.5+ years of engineering and planning ahead of that.
I think designing and reconstructing this bridge in one year would be an engineering feat nearly on the level of us putting a person on the Moon in 1969.
I don’t think it’s the engineering that typically holds this stuff up, it’s the bureaucratic mess that drags this stuff out.
While a totally different scale, the one thing learned from the Philly bridge overpass rebuild, is that things can happen REALLY fast when the magic government hand is waved to eliminate bureaucracy in approvals and execution.
If the pockets are opened and the government is motivated to step aside and not hold things up, I’d bet the whole thing could get done in under 2 years. Maybe less. As is, we’re probably looking at a decade.