I doubt that. If this was a giant sink hole yes. But just the concrete curing time alone could be 2 weeks, if you were pouring today.

The reality is, that if these are re-using old blueprints (if they have them), shop drawings, field measures, approvals, fabricating, I’d say bare minimum to have PT beams on site is 3-4…

Having lived and worked on infrastructure in both philly and ATL, I disagree.

and how would you have prevented this accident? ATL’s was preventable, don’t store fuel load under a major infrastructure. But this was moving. I guess you could have installed a dry pipe sprinkler system.

ATL’s rebuild is permanent it took 6 weeks. 

Biggest issue with car chargers is data / cell signals. Fix the app so that it can share an approved charging certificate and allow charging while the station lacks data. 

The issue I know of is no land owner will sign off on this. Besides the pavement damage there is the liability. It is long over due for the state to publish a general liability release. 

Nothing you said gives you the right to do it on public streets or land that isn’t yours.

disown them...

so... we may have hundreds of chargers at buildings across the country. They don’t net any real money for landowners. 

In all honesty disposal of this under public ROW like roads is NOT the worst idea. We’ve done similar things under airport runways for decades. Precisely because they aren’t occupiable spaces. I’d have to dig into the technicalities. 

lol. you haven’t met cost plus contractors. They will follow every rule and bill for every grain of sand they can. This would be a huge gift for them. 

building housing is probably the most highly regulated part of our country. 

I agree, there isn’t really a challenge getting it up there. I am thinking there could be a pretty good challenge in KEEPING it up there though. Can the wheel assemblies / connection points resist the uplift loads that cross winds will have on this? Do they adjust the trims at all to keep it forced down?

I mean, would you believe me if I just said, “I’ve recently installed municipal power poles, and done public design for public ROW power lines. And it isn’t “that simple” to tap into existing or even new poles”?

I’ve designed and installed both. You are missing the transformers needed for their supply. and the lines to them. And no you can’t just “connect” to a nearby power source. 

That is a good link. Thanks.

I’ve been to and spent time in 27 / 36 cities he has listed. Worked in most of those and lived in 6. 

Totally agreed. But this article is specifically talking about US infrastructure. 

and they often contract that out as well.

From a technical perspective a meter is completely independent. It takes only a few minutes to drill a hole and install. Car chargers are a whole different animal. Much more intensive, especially in level 2 or rapid chargers. 

sigh... for a car blog, this article lacks an amazing understanding about how road’s and streets are built, owned, & maintained in the US.

There is a reason you don’t see street side chargers built in the US, no one place owns all the roads. And cities are notoriously bad at building their own infrastructure. 

sigh... the hospitals around the 285 & 400 interchange contribute no real traffic impact. In fact the interchange at 400 isn’t really an issue. The issue is the added traffic of residents north of 400 trying to get to work and get home using 285. There isn’t that much local traffic on the Dunwoody exits.