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Private company vs government intervention.
People tend to get upset when their roads fail as often and catastrophically as rail roads. Also you can value engineer the **** out of something when you control the speed it can be crossed and the load that can be on it.
I was just gonna say, they have railroad money to throw at these problems. They burn money just to not be so badly inconvenienced the next time something happens they don't like.
they can when they want to and the government gets out of the way
It was that way in the Black Mountain area of North Carolina after the hurricane. Bunch of good old boys got in their equipment and built new roads. FEMA asked them to stop and get permits. They were promptly told to **** off.
The only thing they did was get the **** out of the way and let the the contractor work.
Pretty much everything private is stock, basically out of a handbook for bridges, with enough **** just laying around to rebuild the whole thing. Public projects like that are obsolete/illegal before the project is complete.
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well government has the money printer
Seeing this form the inside, the corruption is at the elected level. Anyone that's working a job it's unpossible to be corrupt. Lazy, feckless, and almost unfireable sure. Corruption, I don't know how you could do it, and I've had jobs where I was the one paying the contractor for their work.
It's a shame railroads are too stogy to monetize this. They could make money hand over fist by buying (or taking some sort of lease with a highly specific contract) and developing land with none of that bull**** and then selling it. I abut a railroad. I'd much rather enrich CSX than some local pieces of **** who are in bed with the local government.
I'm surprised the contractor was capable of moving that fast. Companies beholden to other people's bull**** timetables tend to eventually only be capable of working on those timetables because there's no point in being able to go much faster.
Because continually updating standards are a make work project for all parties involved.
Some enterprising local pile jetter who's near retirement without much future business to lose should just start throwing piles in with no ****s given and see if they can wind up in "real big boy court" (i.e. not the local permitting kangaroo court) over it. With the local population probably mostly in favor of **** the rules and rebuilding it might get you a favorable precedent.
union strong pile butts local 736
One of my customers has a gigantic forklift I've never seen then use but gets a PM every few months. I asked them why they have it and why they spend money to keep up on it. It exists solely to pick up wrecked rail cars. The have a contract and get paid a ton of money so if the day ever comes they will be there ASAP.
