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Alot of the high paying factory jobs that were in our country left because our country didn't want to pay higher saleries.People will do it elsewhere cheaper,so the products will be cheaper.Now people in our country who could really use the construction jobs and factory jobs are starving and poor.If you pay higher saleries,you'll get higher quality.
Exactly, and look at what happens when you try to save a few bucks on you food, a thousand on your car, a million on a bridge. If it is worth doing, it is worth doing right. We don't get that anymore.
Theres bridges from 100 years ago that are still up.But than you see this great big bridge and it was only 40 years old and it falls down.
Well, I think there are two morals to this story here. Number one, never take anything for granted. The Poplar Street Bridge luckily avoided collapsing several years ago when a crack was discovered in one of its steel girder beams or something, and they managed to repair it in time while closing off the lane which the crack ran under. The first lesson I think is to close off a bridge when repairs are being made to it...that is a given....that way if it falls nobody gets killed or hurt (except maybe the workers putting their lives on the line to do it, hopefully they won't die either though)...number two...I think the second lesson is never to take any type of structure for granted...the biggest mistake people make is assuming that because a bridge is relatively new, or because some type of structure is assumed to be indestructable, it isn't. We have learned this lesson countless times in the past...the Titanic, that bridge in Washington which i forget, the Twin Towers, etc.....we can't see everything coming here but we can at least do as much as possible by going the extra mile to minimize deaths and doing as much as possible to stabilize a bridge. Luckily, if I want to go to Minneapolis, i have an alternative route to the Avenue of the Saints which is just as fast...I could either take I-35E or I could just avoid the I-35 mess altogether and take I-55 north to I-39 in Bloomington, IL and then take I-39 to I-90/I-94, and then take I-94 to Minneapolis. I would imagine that I-35E is going to be experiencing MAJOR backups for the next few months.
Did you ever suspect that happening to the bridge?
I've always wanted to visit.. but I guess I'll have to wait now
You can still visit. This will make it somewhat of a pain to get around the city depending on where you are but it can be done. I live about 4 blocks from where the bridge starts. It will make it harder for me to get around but it's not that big of a deal because I spend most of my time on the U of M campus anyway.
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