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We just had an expolsion in downtown S.F. I'm sure people thought it might be a bomb.
When I heard that a man hole cover blew off of the street, I thought maybe it was one of our electrical transformers that blew. I think it was.
Our infrastructure is in dier need of repair/replacement.
How is the infrastructure in your area?
When I heard that a man hole cover blew off of the street, I thought maybe it was one of our electrical transformers that blew. I think it was.
Our infrastructure is in dier need of repair/replacement.
How is the infrastructure in your area?
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Join the club. Washington DC has been having those for years. Old cities, old infrastructure. If I remember correctly, some of the old water pipes either in DC or New york are wood and a few still in service. Hollowed out logs.
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It does seem to me that the right coast is more prone to infrastructure failure than the left coast because it's much older.
We're starting to have our failures here also.
We're starting to have our failures here also.
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Every winter and spring in New York City there are incidences of transformer fires, Manhole explosions and couple of times people were electrocuted when they stepped on a manhole cover. Water main pipes burst and cause sink holes at intersections. Pot holes galore. One overpass near here was near collapse. They've torn it down and are replacing it now. Something was really wrong with that one. It was over the thru-way (toll road) and all the overpasses were built around the same time. The overpasses next to it are fine. On this one the concrete in the posts supporting it crumbled away.
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sierraben, you'd be right that infrastructure here in the Boston area is rough. As 76supercab2 noted, we've also had a rash of explosions, 'hot' man hole covers, etc.
Bridges in particular are in dire straits. Sure glad the country spent > $15 billion - BILLION - for a couple miles of buried road (with lots of structure problems and leaks)and a new bridge - an excellent example of greed, corruption, and a total lack of any accountability. Local, state, and federal gov'ts make the likes of Enron, WorldCom etc look like small change - they are easily the most inefficient organizations in the country. [Think about it - $15 billion, for a couple of miles of road that will do little to actually improve traffic, does nothing for conservation, public transport, new enery sources, etc. . .]
Bridges in particular are in dire straits. Sure glad the country spent > $15 billion - BILLION - for a couple miles of buried road (with lots of structure problems and leaks)and a new bridge - an excellent example of greed, corruption, and a total lack of any accountability. Local, state, and federal gov'ts make the likes of Enron, WorldCom etc look like small change - they are easily the most inefficient organizations in the country. [Think about it - $15 billion, for a couple of miles of road that will do little to actually improve traffic, does nothing for conservation, public transport, new enery sources, etc. . .]
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cjstang, wasn't that boston project called something like the big dig, or something like that?
Cost something like a billion dollars a linear inch (exaggerating , of course).
I heard it had cracks and water leaks here and there.
Cost something like a billion dollars a linear inch (exaggerating , of course).
I heard it had cracks and water leaks here and there.
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are bridges are rusting and like soemthing 75% of the bridges are in dier (sp?) need of repair. atleast one callopse each year
theres over a million dollars missing from the road projects. after taxes it just disappears. tulsa is alway being constructed, but its crap.
theres over a million dollars missing from the road projects. after taxes it just disappears. tulsa is alway being constructed, but its crap.
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Originally Posted by cjstang
sierraben, you'd be right that infrastructure here in the Boston area is rough. As 76supercab2 noted, we've also had a rash of explosions, 'hot' man hole covers, etc.
Bridges in particular are in dire straits. Sure glad the country spent > $15 billion - BILLION - for a couple miles of buried road (with lots of structure problems and leaks)and a new bridge - an excellent example of greed, corruption, and a total lack of any accountability. Local, state, and federal gov'ts make the likes of Enron, WorldCom etc look like small change - they are easily the most inefficient organizations in the country. [Think about it - $15 billion, for a couple of miles of road that will do little to actually improve traffic, does nothing for conservation, public transport, new enery sources, etc. . .]
Bridges in particular are in dire straits. Sure glad the country spent > $15 billion - BILLION - for a couple miles of buried road (with lots of structure problems and leaks)and a new bridge - an excellent example of greed, corruption, and a total lack of any accountability. Local, state, and federal gov'ts make the likes of Enron, WorldCom etc look like small change - they are easily the most inefficient organizations in the country. [Think about it - $15 billion, for a couple of miles of road that will do little to actually improve traffic, does nothing for conservation, public transport, new enery sources, etc. . .]
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