I feel like this was part of the plan, given the name of the boat and the call sign. It feels like Evergreen was suppose to get stuck and hold up all transportation flow for the next two weeks while operations are being carried out. I just can’t imagine they couldn’t get that boat unstuck in one day if they really wanted too.
Thoughts?
I second. I remember several years back when there was a major accident pre-dawn on one of the freeway arteries that go into SF via the Bay Bridge. Major reconstruction required. Job was projected to be months and the traffic situation, which was already bad, was going to be even worse. This was before telecommuting was common. The contractor got the job done in less than a month. I am sure there were incentives built into that, but they got the job done and done right. (Contrast that to the bridge itself which was 20+ years after the 1989 earthquake, something like 4x the cost and shoddy.)
A gasoline tanker caught on fire in the "MacArthur Maze" interchange and melted the freeway overpass above and it came crashing down, so they had to rebuild the overpass above and repair the one it fell onto.
those guys banged that construction out, working 24 hours a day. They bid the job for about $800K and got a 7 million dollar performance bonus for getting it done in 26 days.
Nuh uhu.gasoleine on fire cant melt bridges/s