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I'm curious about how long it took to build the original. Not sure what if any significant time-saving innovations have been made in major bridge construction since the original.
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I'm curious about how long it took to build the original. Not sure what if any significant time-saving innovations have been made in major bridge construction since the original.
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The real question is whether or not construction can restart before a lot of the legal issues are resolved. That could take years and, until those issues are resolved, who is going to pay for the reconstruction.
Indeed.
Not impossible to imagine the legal prerequisites may take more time than the bridge reconstruction.
Competent government decision-makers should understand that span was not merely an inconsequential / aesthetic decoration. It catalyzes the economy by lowering the cost of transportation of workers and products. Every tick of the clock signals loss of $$$. So there's both public sector, and private sector incentive to not dawdle.
What I do not know:
- Could investment $capital buffer this on contingency with the understanding that government will underwrite the construction loan, and separately attempt to recover $some from the bad boat people.
- Is such investment capital available for this purpose, at affordable interest rate?
- If so, will that happen? And how much time would it save?
Bitter Whining:
New York State voters were offered a bond issue for funding construction of the New York / Thomas E. Dewey Thruway limited access highway.
My understanding:
Voters were assured: vote to fund this construction, and New York will operate tolls on this highway, BUT !! only until the bond / highway construction spending is paid off. After that the toll plazas will be demolished, and the Thruway will be toll free.
Nope !
Reports indicate that debt has been paid in full long ago. Instead of toll plazas New York transitioned to EZ-pass, electronic toll collection, and now reportedly to license plate scanner toll collection.
Not difficult to imagine a similar swindle replacing the Frank S. Key bridge.
Perhaps we should migrate to somewhere a little more civilized. Ukraine is lovely this time of year.
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Company vows to sue over damages after New Mexico authorities destroy cannabis crops
By Susan Montoya BryanState police have destroyed tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana plants at greenhouses in northwestern New Mexico, marking what regulators say is the largest seizure and destruction of cannabis in New Mexico since new possession and cultivation laws took effect in 2021.
Authorities announced the operation Monday, saying dozens of agents were assigned to eradicate the plants in October. The state Cannabis Control Division had started the process of revoking the license of NNK Equity LLC, having filed a noncompliance order and a default order earlier this year.
The company was accused of not posting its licenses on site, failing to obtain water rights for cultivation, not having cameras that could monitor certain areas of its operation and violating sanitation and health requirements.
“The organization involved showed a blatant disregard for the laws of this state and we will prove that once this investigation is over,” New Mexico State Police Chief Troy Weisler said in a statement.
Jacob Candelaria, an Albuquerque attorney who represents NNK Equity, disputed the state’s claims and accused regulators and state police of violating his client’s civil rights. He said the state failed to ....
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Why does this sound like the regulators watched "Reefer Madness" once too often?
I'm not sure I have the entire story here. As presented in #304 it seems like the government action was confrontational, combative, needlessly destructive. OTO
public safety standards exist for a reason.
It would be comforting to believe these two parties could synchronize before the next harvest, resulting in government assurance that all requirements have been met, and that the legal commerce will not be interfered with.
Worth noting:
#304 presents the impression the government/s responsible for this destruction either don't understand $markets well enough to understand the consequence, or are relatively indifferent to the fact that the black-market will provide for the shortfall. That's what "supply-&-demand" means.
If the policy makers responsible for this raid / bust / destruction were serious about public safety, PARTICULARLY during this lethal fentanyl crisis, they might have been more practical.
So as a result, how many New Mexicans will succumb to fentanyl, thereby never becoming old -Mexicans ?
And the death-toll quite likely to climb higher because of this.
Vote Harris / Walz !