My friend is from Philly and always says “water” like “wood-er”, so I dread what’ll happen if we allow an echo chamber of the accents of the city to emerge
Is your friend Brooks Moore, the narrator for How It's Made?
You'd think as car-centric as this country is, there'd be contingency plans in place to rapidly fix roads in a matter of days when that shit breaks catastrophically.
Check out this fucking bullshit. Emphasis mine.
Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
The eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge was a construction project to replace a seismically unsound portion of the Bay Bridge with a new self-anchored suspension bridge (SAS) and a pair of viaducts. The bridge is in the U.S. state of California and crosses the San Francisco Bay between Yerba Buena Island and Oakland. The span replacement took place between 2002 and 2013, and is the most expensive public works project in California history.
[It had] a final price tag of $6.5 billion, a 2,500% cost overrun from the original estimate of $250 million. Originally scheduled to open in 2007, several problems delayed the opening until September 2, 2013. With a width of 258.33 ft (78.74 m), comprising 10 general-purpose lanes, it is the world's widest bridge according to Guinness World Records.
You're telling me Americans built the interstate highway system? Bullshit. There's no way. They can't even repair the roads that already exist! Either ancient egyptians sailed over to America through a time tunnel and did it as contract work, or it was aliens.
It had to be a Stargate.
I love the fact that not only was it 2,500% times as much - it was also 6 years late! China could build an entire bridge for $6.5 billion and it would be done on time too
America will only ever do something at speed if they can use it as an excuse for ethnic cleasing. It was the same thing with their railroads and with the interstate highway system.
All the cops live in northeast Philly. I hope they get cut off from the rest of the city.
"yo, byoodeeful. this ahdeetood is gonna fuck up all the wooder. people wont even be able to get mussard on the jawn. go iggles." - da Mayer of Phildelfia, James "Jimmy Goodtimes" Bryson IV
