Yeah, but ever hear of the Titanic law? It's an old law from the late 1800s to protect ship companies from going bankrupt due to lawsuits. Want to know why there was little restitution paid to the survivors of the Titanic? That's why (and thus is why it's erroneously called the Titanic law). More than likely we will get payment from the insurance companies, but that can take YEARS to clear, and it's not guaranteed we will get full reimbursement.
Maybe we should protect our bridges from collision if we don’t want them collapsing. We didn’t utilize existing technologies that would’ve prevented this collapse because of cost. Now we will spend at least 10x as much money to replace the bridge.
Start a FERRY SERVICE right now! No one KNOWS what technical problems lie in waiting. Why wait? Mothballed ships are available. Build the docks! Seattle, Washington RUNS on ferries!
Nope, some anti-tax conservative is going to get elected and deliver on their promise to cut spending by nixing things like protecting bridges from collision
The insurance will pay off sooner or later, but such things are always caught in legal red tape. Sure it's possible the insurance won't entirely cover the costs here, but it's better than nothing.
Well, again it could take years for such a thing to happen, and it's not guaranteed it would help out. This is certainly a good case for Biden's infrastructure bill as yes infrastructure is something America is seriously lagging behind on. Yes it will probably cost taxpayers money, but It's something I can get behind.
Trump and the GOP have given big business huge tax breaks and who benefit more from great infrastructure. Yes we all need to get behind it but it's time to make business pay too. There are natural disasters but this and many others are the fault of business who have loopholes on liability.
Well, the taxpayers skimped on bridge safety, we didn’t want to spend 30 million dollars to protect this bridge from collision. So now we get to spend 10x as much money to repair the damage we could’ve prevented.
nice to know but what they need to do is open the door for contractors proposals and qualifications for building the new bridge keep the grandstanding and politics out of it but you know that wont happen they line up like sea gulls on a railing
Country don’t have 2 - 3 billions to build the bridge. Country don’t have 10 billions to help AMERICAN veterans Country don’t have 10 - 15 billions to help AMERICAN homeless BUT… country just recently sent 61 billions to continue war 12000 miles away from own border
obiden has to make sure he pays them so zelensky doesnt spill the beans on the politicians kids that got paid by some of ukraines businesses dont want that to come out
It’s not a lack of resources it’s more of a lack of state capacity. We’re working within a system that was designed 200 years ago to operate without political parties. We just sort of muddle through and make it work as a two-party system because we can’t change it, and having exclusive access to the resources of an entire continent made things really easy for the first century of sovereignty.
Remember when we wasted a trillion dollars to occupy Iraq for a decade? Nobody seemed to have a problem with spending money then, and we spent it all on breaking stuff not building
The ship owner has to pay for this damage to this bridge! Not the American taxpayer !!!
Yeah, but ever hear of the Titanic law?
It's an old law from the late 1800s to protect ship companies from going bankrupt due to lawsuits.
Want to know why there was little restitution paid to the survivors of the Titanic? That's why (and thus is why it's erroneously called the Titanic law).
More than likely we will get payment from the insurance companies, but that can take YEARS to clear, and it's not guaranteed we will get full reimbursement.
Maybe we should protect our bridges from collision if we don’t want them collapsing.
We didn’t utilize existing technologies that would’ve prevented this collapse because of cost. Now we will spend at least 10x as much money to replace the bridge.
Start a FERRY SERVICE right now!
No one KNOWS what technical problems lie in waiting.
Why wait? Mothballed ships are available. Build the docks!
Seattle, Washington RUNS on ferries!
California's Bay Bridge was supposed to cost $1 billion. It ended up over $6 billion.
Well, by law, governments usually have to go for the cheapest option so if you don’t underbid then you’re guaranteed to never get a contract
Maybe next time Maryland will not build a mouse trap bridge.
Nope, some anti-tax conservative is going to get elected and deliver on their promise to cut spending by nixing things like protecting bridges from collision
The bridge itself was not the issue though, it's more that no one had put more defenses against ship collisions for it.
Why have insurance if it won't cover it? Sounds like funding insurance for no reason
The insurance will pay off sooner or later, but such things are always caught in legal red tape.
Sure it's possible the insurance won't entirely cover the costs here, but it's better than nothing.
Lets hope the insurance on the ship and the ships owners pay for this. The tax payers shouldn't thats for God damn sure
Well, again it could take years for such a thing to happen, and it's not guaranteed it would help out.
This is certainly a good case for Biden's infrastructure bill as yes infrastructure is something America is seriously lagging behind on.
Yes it will probably cost taxpayers money, but It's something I can get behind.
Trump and the GOP have given big business huge tax breaks and who benefit more from great infrastructure. Yes we all need to get behind it but it's time to make business pay too. There are natural disasters but this and many others are the fault of business who have loopholes on liability.
Well, the taxpayers skimped on bridge safety, we didn’t want to spend 30 million dollars to protect this bridge from collision. So now we get to spend 10x as much money to repair the damage we could’ve prevented.
nice to know but what they need to do is open the door for contractors proposals and qualifications for building the new bridge keep the grandstanding and politics out of it but you know that wont happen they line up like sea gulls on a railing
Country don’t have 2 - 3 billions to build the bridge.
Country don’t have 10 billions to help AMERICAN veterans
Country don’t have 10 - 15 billions to help AMERICAN homeless
BUT… country just recently sent 61 billions to continue war 12000 miles away from own border
obiden has to make sure he pays them so zelensky doesnt spill the beans on the politicians kids that got paid by some of ukraines businesses dont want that to come out
It’s not a lack of resources it’s more of a lack of state capacity. We’re working within a system that was designed 200 years ago to operate without political parties. We just sort of muddle through and make it work as a two-party system because we can’t change it, and having exclusive access to the resources of an entire continent made things really easy for the first century of sovereignty.
B S !
Or just print what you need in other words tax payers money.
Remember when we wasted a trillion dollars to occupy Iraq for a decade? Nobody seemed to have a problem with spending money then, and we spent it all on breaking stuff not building