The best part is that you just know there was money "earmarked" for inspections and repair, and that it wound up in some guy's pocket. After all, the sunken pool in my backyard is infrastructure too, is it not?
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Considering this new development I hope you're not having to make the trip to Rumford regularly. What an awful thing to have happen - and you're right that the money never went to fix the problems as they were worsening. I looked at the images of the damaged areas on the Providence Journal website. Scary.
Then I looked to find an answer to the question how many US bridges are structurally deficient and it turns out there are a lot, although not as many as I'd been thinking.
It's funny that it was just a week or so ago we looked at the story of the I10 bridge in LA. Wouldn't it be good if even half the money wasted on weapons were spent on infrastructure instead?
China seems to have a handle on making bridge repair look easy.
I haven't been back to Rumford since. It was a place where I did some supplementary grocery shopping. The last couple of weeks I've been going to a store in Providence instead. Before I start making the old itinerary I want to get some kind of confirmation that you can get from one place to another in under an hour. It is rather frightening that features can decay like that without anyone noticing.
A lot of the states that have a high number of insecure bridges seem to be in the Mississippi River basin. That probably does put more pressure on them.
Yeah, I remember the pictures from LA. Gotta admit, the armaments industry does have some great salesmen.
The modern state of China, as opposed to the ancient culture, is still very young. Still in the phase where they're always making new monuments.
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