It took a year to build the Empire State Building, and 5 years to build the Hoover Dam yet current estimates for the Francis Scott Key bridge rebuild are near 10 years. Why is this? Have we regressed?
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Much stricter building and safety codes. Everything take longer, requires more inspection and costs many times more. I’m not saying safety isn’t important, only that you’ll always have to trade off one thing for another.
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