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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Regulations. Safety, engineer, building codes, environmental impact, all these things take TIME and a lot of it. We just didn’t care that we were fucking up people or the environment in the past. Environmental impact shouldn’t be too big of a study for this bridge since it was already there before, BUT they’ll still need an environmental impact study for the building process. Engineering is a lot less “wild-west” than the past now too, so that takes time as well.
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