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. . . . a 20 inch water main was laid beneath Light Street in downtown Baltimore.
That pipe burst yesterday and will disrupt thousands of lives for at least the next three weeks.
The story was in Baltimore this time, but the situation exists all across this country. Here in "We're Number One" America, our infrastructure is so neglected as to be almost criminal. With infrastructure that is more than a century old common, we are in constant danger of having something break.
Here in Baltimore, there are, famously, still some *wooden* pipes below the oldest part of the city.
Sewers, bridges, electric lines, steam lines, gas lines, all those mains, crossing, shifting with the earth. Just a little. But always shifting.
Look at that gas main in San Bruno. Was that a year ago? Two?
The I-35 bridge.
The list of failures is long. The potential for catastrophe is high.
Bills languish in Congress. No tax increases. States are now as broke as the feds.
No tax increases.
Maybe the teabaggers can hold a bake sale to buy the road fairy a new magic wand.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-16/news/bs-md-ci-light-st-water-main-20120716-11_1_kurt-kocher-proactive-repairs-public-works
edit: The update is in my new post, below.
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what if we, like, hired some of the millions of people who are desperate for jobs, to fix all this 19th-century shizzle?
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Nah, I'm sure if we just keep the free-money firehose pointed down the pie-holes of banksters, it will sort itself out.
