This comes up every garage collapse. In some sense you are right, the load was obviously more than the structure could hold. But as said in the article that is not due to failing to account for vehicle weight. It is due to bad construction or specific design. These things are built to handle more than enough weight.

eh? Why exactly do you NEED any more than 256 GB of space? Everything is streaming now & cloud based now. I haven’t need more than the 128 GB in years.

The sole exception being my work laptop, and that is because I’m running virtual OSs for development & design work. 

why are the taillights so low on the butt?

if you haven’t been paying attention college / university costs have gone up significantly as well. Especially dorm / housing costs. Universities also build way too expensive buildings.

save your outrage. 90% of zoning codes are about tax base, and the other 10% about restricting use of your neighbors land. They all need to be curtailed. 

loan constrictions are happening everywhere. Mortgages are getting tighter now too, and construction loans are non-existent. The constriction is coming. There are almost no construction start loans in the 2nd half of this year. Which means we’ll have an even worse housing crunch in ~2 years time.

The reasons for this…

Great. So we can have an honest conversation. I’d be happy to read Rockin Ray’s comments, but can’t find them.

An analysis of any bridge cannot be just on its structural integrity, but its usefulness, constraints, and adequate replacement. The ASCE’s analysis assumes that we simply replace existing elements, without…

I’ve worked in, with, and employed civil engineers, including on public & private infrastructure projects. They have a limited mindset and narrow scope.

I’m saying you have to take the ASCE report with a grain of salt. They are an interest group, that advocates heavily for new public spending. For example, they…

I’m not really in favor of the eventual cry from florida for federal funds to backstop its shitty state insurance program.

unless you are a civil engineer, architect, or structural engineer, and you have a specific bridge and fire district for to analyze you are just speaking in generalities.

just so you know, there is wide talk about downsizing us fire equipment. Including FD looking at it so that Fire fighters are actually use crash rated commercial vehicles rather than custom built rigs that aren’t.

Age does not correlate to condition. And fire trucks are a shit ton heavier than they need / used to be. It would be a great deal cheaper to buy a lighter fire truck than replace a bridge. But ASCE doesn’t look at a problem that way. They look at the problem relative to their contributors, who just happen to be the…

No, we don’t. There are plenty of bridges that are not properly analyzed from a planning perspective. We also have alot of “historic” bridges, that may not be needed for current traffic flows. Especially in the rust belt. Where it was once a major population center, and for some reason we built everything out of…

you clearly have never worked with civil engineers. Or in a professional engineering / design practice. 

Stop taking everything the ASCE says as gold. They are an interest group that advocates for spending for Civil Engineers. Who make the most money from work on public projects. They have little to no incentive to rate our infrastructure as acceptable, or to do a cost benefit analysis of “do we really need to replace…

Does not surprise me. We could get one, but it could only replace my wife’s crossover, as we’d still need my car for the “family trips.” And they are way to expensive to justify replacing a car that is already paid off. 

The consumer is not at fault. 

I’d be very interested to see their plans for this property. It would not surprise me if there are some extra 4" conduits buried to allow for easy conversion of a gas pump to a charging station. Plenty of space for more transformers too.

They could probably take a 4 pump setup and convert it to 8 charging slots…

The city just needs a go fund me for the costs. That will be filled up in a few days.

you can read about those confederate assholes in history books. Not on street signs.