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Who should pay to rebuild the Baltimore Bridge?www.cbsnews.com/news/baltimore-bridge-reconstruction-funding-congress/
30 sats \ 7 comments \ @BlokchainB 15 Apr Construction_and_Engineering
Should the shipping company foot the bill? What about the insurance company? Is the state or the federal government on the hook?
Sad thing is the US government is so busy funding forever wars it has zero cash to fix this.
I know bitcoin space has a lot of anti state people but it’s just sad to me things are this bad the government can’t even muster up funds (without issuing new debt) to fix a critical piece of infrastructure that would benefit the country as Baltimore is a major port city.
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160 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 16 Apr
The growing consensus on the hill is that the shipping and insurance companies should/will be held liable for as much as they can since there is going to be a cap on the payout. Not to mention the U.S. doesn’t want to bankrupt them. The federal government will foot the rest likely a few billion
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 16 Apr
All of the above
Baltimore should also contribute
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @nym 15 Apr
Probably the first two. Is there an estimate of how long it will take before it opens again?
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16 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 16 Apr
No they are trying to hash out if they should build a temp or not. There is a huge permitting issue as well with this size of a project and the whole thing still has to be bid to be constructed. Needless to say it’s a mess with no clear end in sight
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nym 16 Apr
What a mess. I wonder how many people commuted to their job using that bridge. Hopefully some folks can work from home in the meantime, but I'm sure there are a lot that cannot.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 16 Apr
Interestingly the bridge was used more for offloading/on loading cargo! Baltimore is the largest “roll on roll off” vehicle port along with it being the largest coal exporting port in the U.S.
Roughly 8k longshoreman are affected but there was/is some program that was activated to continue their pay from some fund
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6 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB OP 16 Apr
Last I read was 3 to 15 years
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