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Bridges, and the lack thereof
So, the Bay Bridge is still closed. Which means that commuters will be moving south (and north, but I don't care about that), and clogging my bridge. Yes, mine. I've been commuting across it for over 13 years, so I think I have a pretty good claim to it.
Now, the Bay Bridge broke, and, obviously, it needs to be fixed. But it sort of was, except...
A quick fix - a brace designed to take pressure off the eyebar - was installed over Labor Day weekend, but engineers failed to appropriately factor how weather and traffic would affect the repair.
Really? "Failed to appropriate factor" little details, like tens of thousands of cars every day, traveling across a bridge that spans a bay that has been known to get a little bit damp, and just a bit windy? Perhaps they could have overbuilt that repair?
Because at this point, they could have built a new Bay Bridge out of gold, mithril, and unicorn horns. And it would have cost 1/10 as much. Well, at least 1/2. Unicorn horns are probably fairly expensive, even when you buy them in bulk.