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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months agoOh, you bright and wonderful soul, untarnished by the knowledge of the depths of Musk’s stupidity, I envy you. I envy you and will destroy your blissful ignorance: he suggested reusing the collapsed truss steel.
You know, steel! The material that deals fantastically with being bent and compressed and doesn’t lose any strength at all from it! 😬
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
FFS that’s dumb, that steel can’t be reused without being reforged (or whatever the term is)
That broken bridge needs removed (hopefully recycled) and then a new one built in it’s place
Hopefully it goes faster than the project to replace a bridge near me. It was built before WWI and it’s still there, the talks have been going on for decades.
Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Sounds like a bridge near me.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 months ago
There is a bridge near me that was rebuild so cars can cross like 30 years ago. They had plans to repaint it, because it looks weathered. They put on 3 different kinds of paint to see which one would look best. The 3 samples are already weathered and peeling by now.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
and my axe i mean bridge.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
And let me guess; hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on multiple studies figuring out whether or not the bridge should be replaced?
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Funnily enough no
Everyone knows it needs replaced
No one wants to agree on what should replace it though
Basically 2 different jurisdictions want to replace the bridge and then either one will propose a plan that inevitably gets shot down and then it’s back to the drawing board
So the money is being wasted there not on whether it should be replaced or not