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Meanwhile, here in the USA, all we hear about is how our bridges are falling apart after 50 years and that we need to spend trillions to bring them and other st
by France_is_bacon 5y ago
Meanwhile, here in the USA, all we hear about is how our bridges are falling apart after 50 years and that we need to spend trillions to bring them and other stuff like that up to speed. Maybe we should have ridiculously overbuilt our bridges and roads so that they will last 2000 years. I know. Crazy ideas.
- danachow 5y agoThere’s no free lunch. An overbuilt bridge the magnitude of a modern suspension bridge may well take 50 years to build. The romans weren’t building them that big and the projects that were that big took generations.
- France_is_bacon 5y agoYeah, but I'm not talking about bridges like the Golden Gate or Brooklyn Bridges. Those bridges will never be in danger of falling down, because bridges like that are constantly repaired and maintained. The bridges that I am talking about, and that most are talking about, are the shorter bridges. The ones that are 20 or 30 or 50 feet long - just the regular small bridges - there are thousands and thousands of them, all ready to fall down. Just looked it up, I was not even close - there are not thousands and thousands, there are more than 617,000 bridges across the United States. https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges/ https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges/