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Article #393Re: Stacking freeways
From: Merritt Mullen
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 22:44
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 22:44
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Vincent Valencio at volksdriven63@hotmail.com wrote on 8/11/01 10:27 AM: > True true, I guess caltrans didn't even try. Because earthquakes are > real in southern California they know despite their best efforts they > will loose some freeways, elevated, stacked, all of it depending on > the earthquake. So in other words, Caltrans made those series of > overpasses on the harbor freeway close by to downtown LA as cheap as > possible. Disposable, designed cheap and easier to be rebuilt after > an earthquake. They probably think that cheap scary design will last > about 50 years approx. before the next quake and that's good enough > since these freeways are needed and heavily used everyday anyway. I've never heard such blather! Now I know you not only didn't go to an engineering school, I wonder if... no, I won't say it. Merritt
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