Who Broke The Bridge?

[Streetcar]

A bridge that crosses a state border is usually maintained by which state has larger portion, but other state pays portion of cost.

 

[blee03]

I don't object to paying for civilization.

Yeah me neither.
But not with reckless, wasteful spending.

The funds need to be managed properly.

You know, like how you and I manage our bank accounts...

but if you really want to help pay for civilization with higher taxes, you can start by not cashing your tax return check this year. That will help keep the tax dollars flowing for our country!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Thought it was Arkansas’s bridge, but it probably effects TN more.

 

[MikePA]

From now on, people who make political posts will be banned for 1 day.

 

[/pine]

From now on, people who make political posts will be banned for 1 day.

It would be a good idea to educate the mods on what exactly is and is not political...because based on past activity posts have been removed because the powers that be simply thought they were political in nature but actually had nothing to do with partisan or any type of politics...!

 

[MikePA]

It would be a good idea to educate the mods on what exactly is and is not political...because based on past activity posts have been removed because the powers that be simply thought they were political in nature but actually had nothing to do with partisan or any type of politics...!

To paraphrase Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography" "politics"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.[3]

The onus is on the person making the post. If they think it might be political, do not post it.

 

[/pine]

To paraphrase Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography" "politics"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.[3]

The onus is on the person making the post. If they think it might be political, do not post it.

That's hardly fair...if a mod is ignorant of the facts it's easy for a member to get banned for no reason...!

 

[aczlan]

The feds can share cost on many transportation projects, but only have to pay on federal property and dc.
Currently feds are paying 80 percent of cost of bike trail I am working on

And no matter who is signing the checks, Alabama, Tennessee or the feds, the people doing the work are likely to be private contractors not federal or state employees. The only difference is who's overseeing them and who signs the check.


Aaron Z

 

[Diggin It]

It would be a good idea to educate the mods on what exactly is and is not political...because based on past activity posts have been removed because the powers that be simply thought they were political in nature but actually had nothing to do with partisan or any type of politics...!

Mentioning a Government policy may or may not be. It would depend on how it was phrased.

Mentioning a specific party, candidate or office holder in a desparaging or overly positive way or blaming or crediting them for certain events IS political.

It really isn't that hard to distinguish.

 

[Diggin It]

the people doing the work are likely to be private contractors not federal or state employees.

More likely some kind of mix. The laborers and machine operators may be private, but state and federal employees are almost always present in the form of field supervisors, engineers, inspectors, etc.

 

[RickB]

That's hardly fair...if a mod is ignorant of the facts it's easy for a member to get banned for no reason...!

This is a privately owned and maintained site. Fairness is determined by those holding the reins. Understand that or move on.

 

[/pine]

Mentioning a Government policy may or may not be. It would depend on how it was phrased.

Mentioning a specific party, candidate or office holder in a desparaging or overly positive way or blaming or crediting them for certain events IS political.

It really isn't that hard to distinguish.

This is just "partisan politics"...something can be political in nature and not have anything to do with partisan politics...

...This is a privately owned and maintained site. Fairness is determined by those holding the reins.

...in other words hypocrisy rules...! LoL

 

[ptsg]

Rules are simple. No politics, religion and something else I can't remember. Why keep pushing it? Just refrain from address these topics at all. Muhammed even went to the trouble to setting up a new website so all of these topics could be discussed there and not on TBN.

 

[/pine]

The rules are like jello...there is no consistency...biases are blatantly evident...

Right now there is one thread that is so far out of hand it's not funny...in times past it would have been shut down well before now...!

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Yeah me neither.
But not with reckless, wasteful spending.

The funds need to be managed properly.

You know, like how you and I manage our bank accounts...

but if you really want to help pay for civilization with higher taxes, you can start by not cashing your tax return check this year. That will help keep the tax dollars flowing for our country!

I don't get tax returns.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

And no matter who is signing the checks, Alabama, Tennessee or the feds, the people doing the work are likely to be private contractors not federal or state employees. The only difference is who's overseeing them and who signs the check.


Aaron Z

Thanks for pointing that out. Major infrastructure projects are handled by private contractors. The repair of this bridge qualifies as major.

 

[Muhammad]

The rules are like jello...there is no consistency...biases are blatantly evident...

Right now there is one thread that is so far out of hand it's not funny...in times past it would have been shut down well before now...!

Did you report it?

 

[Muhammad]

That's hardly fair...if a mod is ignorant of the facts it's easy for a member to get banned for no reason...!

Pretty sure nobody has ever been banned from TBN for no reason. Maybe debatable reasoning but there's always a reason.

 

[/pine]

...Did you report it?

Snitches get stitches...

...Pretty sure nobody has ever been banned from TBN for no reason. Maybe debatable reasoning but there's always a reason.

The point was...if the person doing the banning mistakenly thought a post was political in nature and banned the poster...it would be without (just) reason...

But then again there's likely a lot of innocent people behind bars...

 

[kenlip]

Right Arlyn - looks more like some type of stress fracture. The bridge is simply pulling apart. What type of construction method relies on rivets and not welds. I wonder - is this bridge old enough that welding was not available when it was constructed.

A bit of interesting trivia about the Sydney Harbour Bridge, from Wikipedia, "The bridge is held together by six million Australian-made hand-driven rivets supplied by the McPherson company of Melbourne,[16][17] the last being driven through the deck on 21 January 1932.[15][18] The rivets were heated red-hot and inserted into the plates; the headless end was immediately rounded over with a large pneumatic rivet gun.[19] The largest of the rivets used weighed 3.5 kg (8 lb) and was 39.5 cm (15.6 in) long.[14][20] The practice of riveting large steel structures, rather than welding, was, at the time, a proven and understood construction technique, whilst structural welding had not at that stage been adequately developed for use on the bridge.[19] "