OT. Construction Cost...

[Dean Hoffman]

Wanna buy a bridge? Well, the Brooklyn Bridge cost $300 million to build. This article discusses how slow we are in the U.S. nowadays compared to the past.
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-once-knew-how-to-build-infrastructure-bridge-train-roads-amtrak-private-equity-florida-new-york-government-spending-tunnels-202f1619>

OR. <tinyurl.com/2p8m4tdc >

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 6:26:39 PM UTC-5, Dean Hoffman wrote:

Wanna buy a bridge? Well, the Brooklyn Bridge cost $300 million to build. This article discusses how slow we are in the U.S. nowadays compared to the past.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-once-knew-how-to-build-infrastructure-bridge-train-roads-amtrak-private-equity-florida-new-york-government-spending-tunnels-202f1619

OR. <tinyurl.com/2p8m4tdc

Lincoln Tunnel- those days are gone:

https://www.newsweek.com/lincoln-tunnel-flood-construction-deaths-history-started-1518414


Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge Took 14 Years—And Multiple Lives
Horrific workplace accidents claimed a string of lives and left its designer dead and his son crippled.

https://www.history.com/news/brooklyn-bridge-construction-deaths

Those WSJ article authors are idiots. You\'re dammed right we don\'t stuff like that these days.

 

[Dean Hoffman]

On Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 6:29:42 PM UTC-6, Fred Bloggs wrote:

On Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 6:26:39 PM UTC-5, Dean Hoffman wrote:
Wanna buy a bridge? Well, the Brooklyn Bridge cost $300 million to build. This article discusses how slow we are in the U.S. nowadays compared to the past.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-once-knew-how-to-build-infrastructure-bridge-train-roads-amtrak-private-equity-florida-new-york-government-spending-tunnels-202f1619

OR. <tinyurl.com/2p8m4tdc
Lincoln Tunnel- those days are gone:

https://www.newsweek.com/lincoln-tunnel-flood-construction-deaths-history-started-1518414


Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge Took 14 Years—And Multiple Lives
Horrific workplace accidents claimed a string of lives and left its designer dead and his son crippled.

https://www.history.com/news/brooklyn-bridge-construction-deaths

Those WSJ article authors are idiots. You\'re dammed right we don\'t stuff like that these days.

Yeah. I remember the classic picture of men on a construction beam of the Empire State Building. <https://www.pinterest.com/pin/98094098111328056/>

 

[Bob Engelhardt]

\"Continue reading your article with a WSJ subscription\"

 

[Carlos E.R.]

On 2023-03-08 03:35, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 6:29:42 PM UTC-6, Fred Bloggs wrote:
On Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 6:26:39 PM UTC-5, Dean Hoffman wrote:
Wanna buy a bridge? Well, the Brooklyn Bridge cost $300 million to build. This article discusses how slow we are in the U.S. nowadays compared to the past.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-once-knew-how-to-build-infrastructure-bridge-train-roads-amtrak-private-equity-florida-new-york-government-spending-tunnels-202f1619

OR. <tinyurl.com/2p8m4tdc
Lincoln Tunnel- those days are gone:

https://www.newsweek.com/lincoln-tunnel-flood-construction-deaths-history-started-1518414


Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge Took 14 Years—And Multiple Lives
Horrific workplace accidents claimed a string of lives and left its designer dead and his son crippled.

https://www.history.com/news/brooklyn-bridge-construction-deaths

Those WSJ article authors are idiots. You\'re dammed right we don\'t stuff like that these days.

Yeah. I remember the classic picture of men on a construction beam of the Empire State Building. <https://www.pinterest.com/pin/98094098111328056/

That picture was a setup.
And there was a floor beneath them, so in case of accident they would
only fall one level.

A beautiful picture. Art, not journalism. Intended for promotion of the
building.

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Cheers, Carlos.

 

[Dean Hoffman]

On Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 7:07:17 AM UTC-6, Bob Engelhardt wrote:

\"Continue reading your article with a WSJ subscription\"

Clicking on the tiny url link seems to still work. The full length one didn\'t on Wednesday morning.

 

[Carlos E.R.]

On 2023-03-08 15:01, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 7:07:17 AM UTC-6, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
\"Continue reading your article with a WSJ subscription\"


Clicking on the tiny url link seems to still work. The full length one didn\'t on Wednesday morning.

When I try the tiny link, my firefox blocks it.




uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:

https://redirect.viglink.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Famerica-once-knew-how-to-build-infrastructure-bridge-train-roads-amtrak-private-equity-florida-new-york-government-spending-tunnels-202f1619&key=a7e37b5f6ff1de9cb410158b1013e54a&prodOvrd=RAC&opt=false

Because of the following filter:

||viglink.com^
Found in:

Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list


[ ] Don\'t warn me again about this site






I can use <https://www.expandurl.net/expand> to expand the url, and it
yields

https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-once-knew-how-to-build-infrastructure-bridge-tr

and says it appears to be safe.





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Cheers, Carlos.