There are plenty of examples (35W bridge in MSP, 880 in Oakland) where properly incented contractors can get the job done fast. 24x7 schedules with time sucking regulations waived and early completion incentives... It can be done.
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Whoa Kimosabee’s. Slow down a bit.
We have search n rescues, investigations, salvage, a quiet period of mourning with wreaths and doves, budget appropriations, environmenal impact studies, lawsuits, victims compensation arguments, engineering studies, bid proposal meetings, closed bidding, more lawsuits, bid awards, more lawsuits, material appropriation bid proposals, more lawsuits, California Prop 65 cancer hazard designation for material in Maryland, more lawsuits, start building, stop work order for rare fish nobody has ever seen, more lawsuits, restart build, stop work order for not enough POC on work teams, permanent stop work order., material rusts in storage lot...
Presidential election, complete build in two weeks.
😂 Funny, but painfully all-too-true.
I lived in Austin, Texas back in the late 90s when we voted not once but four times to NOT have toll roads in and around Austin but "they" were building them even as we voted and I have never seen a road system be built as fast as those toll road were built. There is no doubt in my mind we do have the capability to rebuild this bridge quickly but it will most likely be drawn out so that more money flows into the wrong hands.
Yup, said the same thing pretty much on another post this morning, only in Alabama and they haven't built it yet but governor memaw is still trying to get it done. We keep saying No and she keeps trying new ways to sneak it by us. And it's on a major highway that goes all the way along the south. She must still have backs she needs to scratch I guess.
I know a guy who could do it in 3 days.
Amen
This guy?
Nope - not that guy.
It would absolutely be the BEST bridge anyone has ever seen, a FANTASTIC big beautiful bridge.
The longest... Widest bridge ever built...
Haste makes waste. I wouldn't go near a bridge that took a total of only 6 months to :
(a) the foundations for the supports (b) The bridge structure, and (c) The roadway.
4 years would be pretty speedy, IMHO.
A lot of that 4 years is down time, my friend. Why is there down time? Just waiting for the budget to release more dollars. 4 years is fast for government work, but for the private sector, it's quite a while.
Which means it could take 6 or 8 years. But OP said the whole thing could be done in 6 months and I say it's not possible, no matter who's in charge or where the money is coming from. My little breakdown had 6 steps. Impossible to each of them in a month.
Get some flex-seal and duct tape... and we'll have that bridge standing by the weekend.
My water main broke in my house. Leaking the nasty all over. Plumber told me to get flex seal tape and hopefully that will hold it back long enough till he gets there later that day. I was skeptical but damn if i told u i felt like a plimber that moment i applied that stuff on
They rebuilt a bridge in Florida to one of the islands cut off in a hurricane in less than a month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanibel_Causeway
Yes he could. But he could do it even faster if he had a construction crew to help.
But then Judge Engoron would say Trump over-valued it and want him to stand trial for... anything they could think of !😄
Get the government out of the way and the bridge would be rebuild in a few months. But, the EPA is going to make certain not one crab or sea slug will be harmed by any material accidentally falling into the waters.
It will be so nice for all the three letter agencies to vanish on Jan 5 2025
That was my first thought… DJT could rebuild it a lot faster than the four years they’re predicting.
Once he gets in office, 3 months tops and it will be done.
Under budget and ahead of schedule