Now Everyone’s an Expert
Posted by Andy on August 16th, 2007
It seems that mayve the one real unifying aspect of the 35W bridge collapse is that now EVERY lawmaker and politician is an expert in transportation.
State transportation officials were repeatedly told by DFL legislators Wednesday to put the brakes on their fast-track plans to replace the collapsed I-35W bridge and concentrate instead on making sure the new bridge is safe and meets the needs of Minnesotans for decades to come.
Of course, the Democrats want to make you suffer even more just for their little agenda…… trains.
The 35W bridge fell down. That bridge is vital to us residents of the Twin Cities. We need that bridge back as quickly as possible. But nope, the DFL wants to slow down this process to put all sorts of other things onto this bridge.
We Twin Citians are supposed to waste more fuel, money, and time away from our families going on different routes for the next 2 plus years, while Rybak and his cronies in the Legislature try to play Sim City, rather than solve a real critical problem. Rebuilding the bridge as quickly as possible.
If you can consider it a ray of hope, luckily, I hear the idea of calling a special session has been put on the back burner. (Thanks Tim.)
Isn’t it sad that the Federal Government can work at a faster pace than Minnesota’s?
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August 16th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
so you’re saying that when the bridge was scheduled to be replaced already in 2020, all they would do is just build the same thing (only stronger and with redundancy) and maybe add 2 lanes of traffic is all?
come on… this isn’t a political issue at all here, it’s about future proofing something…
nobody is saying build LRT into the damn thing right now, they’re saying build it so that it can support LRT in the future if necessary. that amount of load is necessary just to make it be stronger than the previous bridge anyway, so it wouldn’t cost anything extra in terms of strength. and what people don’t get is, they’d be idiots to run LRT ALONGSIDE traffic on the bridge… if any of you have been to NYC you’d know how to run a train over a bridge… (i’ll give you a hit, it’s a Red Hot Chili Peppers song).
August 16th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Priorities…
Much has been said, in recent days, about Transportation and Bridge Inspection. EVERYONE it seems is an “expert” on the issue. There has been plenty of blame laid by the usual suspects. Yet no one seems to be talking about the important……