Posted Nov 24, 2010, 5:25 AM
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Are you guys kidding me? I thought this board was smarter than this. I'm shocked that your all ignorant enough to think that building a replica is the worst idea.
The original bridge was not designed for traffic, it was designed for fucking horses. It was poorly engineered, and honestly, it was/is garbage. Because it's old, it doesn't mean a THING. When you restore an old vehicle, you basically build the whole thing over again, but with better seats, a better motor etc. That's what they are going to do. They're making a bridge that will look almost identical except it will be wider. It's still going to be a beautiful, iconic bridge. So shut up about your history bullshit.
It makes no sense to try to refurbish it. why?
- Steel rusts. It's been rusting for along time, there isn't anything they can do. It's shit and will forever be shit. The bridge deck is now taking a large portion of the loading because of that and that's why it's no longer safe. The original stucture isn't doing it's job, because it was poorly engineering. It's a bad design!!
- The supports won't last very long, also a bad design
- It's too narrow. Emergency vehicles, and woman, cannot drive on it.
- It costs the same as tearing it down and making it over again. BUT WIDER
Let go of it guys, the city isn't going to be worse off because of this. In 10 years people will say "this is the nicest bridge, back in my day it used to be so damn small you couldn't even drive across it without shitting yourself, now they widened it. Oh, and it's never down for REPAIR"
And back to being realistic, if you want a signature bridge, I welcome you to go down to city hall and beg them to shell out another 30 million bucks just to makes something 'pretty'. Don't get me wrong, I think architecture is a big part of a city, but there's a limit on sexiness and functionality. The new bridge will STILL be iconic and show our heritage (which, honestly, means nothing)
I'm sorry if I'm being blunt and offensive, but it makes no sense trying to keep this pile of shit alive. That moron at city hall was saying "ooo, but if we make it wider, it's not the original design" SHUT UP about the original design! It was a cheap, poorly engineered, structurally pathetic, and useless, why would you want to keep going on that route? Why are we so afraid of improvement?
It's not heritage, it's garbage. Please, for the love of god, DO NOT send letters to your councilor begging them to refurbish.
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