Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:40:45 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Commuter revenge!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>  "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> > http://www.wilsonbridge.com/toughestcommute/index.html
>
>  Why are they so eager to tear it down?  I think they ought to leave
>  it for a year or two, just to make sure there are no problems with
>  the replacement bridge.  Consider the chaos caused when one of
>  Boston's new multi-billion dolllar Big Dig tunnels recently proved
>  unusable, and the route it had replaced had already been torn down.

They're tearing it down a) because it was already starting to fall down,
and b) so that they can erect the second new span, parallel to the
current new one.  It will occupy much the same footprint as the span
being torn down.  The newest span is scheduled for completion in two years.

--Ted White