Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Baltimore Bridge Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:48:39 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <54ecndjJKpe_QZn7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:48:39 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="05b9f907f6672cf03fd38f2a5698b181"; logging-data="4074184"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/vZiXTZbRxpMOYqRW7y+1C8D7ZT8YN9FY=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:iyxddmusZ3qbKP7ZojixgIJU+Mo= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3593 BTR1701 wrote: >In article , > "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > >> Adam H. Kerman wrote: >> >shawn wrote: >> >>On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:55:30 +0000, BTR1701 wrote: >> >> >>>Just saw on the news that Joe Biden has pledged that the government will >> >>>"pay the entire cost" of rebuilding the Baltimore bridge. >> >> >>>Huh? Shouldn't the shipping company and its insurance agency foot the bill? >> >>>It's like he just can't wait for any opportunity to fuck the taxpayer. >> >> >>>And when it's rebuilt, obviously it can't be renamed the Francis Scott >> >>>Key Bridge. I mean, "old straight racist white guy", amirite? So what >> >>>will its new name be? >> >> >>>I submit the "Saint George Floyd of Fentanyl Memorial Bridge". >> >> >>The federal government can act to get repairs started today while the >> >>lawyers act to collect any money due from the company/insurance. >> >> >The bridge won't be repaired. It'll be 5 to 7 years at least. >> >> Here's an article from the Baltimore Sun. Turn off javascript to read. >> >> https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/27/how-long-to-rebuild-key-bridge/ >> >> Ignore "rebuild" in the headline. No one is saying it can be rebuilt. >> It's going to be replaced with something brand new. I'm sure the >> piers will both be relocated closer to shore. > >And higher, too. I drove across the Key Bridge regularly when I was a DC >denizen and it was kinda scary how high up you got with seemingly very >little to stop you from going over the side if you lost control. > >> The replacement will have to take into account larger vessels and sea >> level rise > >Which is non-existent pretty much everywhere. Baltimore-specific sea level rise not found elsewhere, There's been no sea level >rise over the last 12 years at the beach down the street from me; when I >visited Miami's South Beach two years ago, the ocean was in the same >place it was in the pictures of my visit 20 years earlier (despite >AlGore's insistence that Miami would be underwater by 2011); Plymouth >Rock isn't underwater; the water level around the base of the Statue of >Liberty hasn't changed since it was erected, etc., etc. > >> so it's entire cost won't be charged to the collision. >> They'll have to calculate the cost to replace it with like kind and the >> difference between that and the new structure will be borne by >> taxpayers. I don't they'll have to pay for years of reduced commerce. >> >> >Don't you remember St. Petersburg?