New Los Angeles bridge opens, then quickly
closes amid chaos
Associated Press,
by
Stefanie Dazio
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/27/2022 10:14:54 PM
LOS ANGELES — The newest bridge in Los Angeles, a $588-million architectural marvel with views of the downtown skyline, opened to great fanfare on July 10. It has already been closed, to great dismay, several times since then amid chaos and collisions. The 6th Street Viaduct — which soars over the concrete-lined Los Angeles River to connect downtown to the historic Eastside — quickly became a hotspot for street racing, graffiti and illegal takeovers that draw hundreds of spectators to watch drivers perform dangerous stunts in their vehicles. Social media stunts have abounded as well — in one case, a man sat in a
The Los Angeles Police Department has closed the bridge multiple times — an exact count was not available Wednesday...
Exactly, 4 times in the last 5 nights.
The El Segundo Times is proposing the bridge be closed to vehicular traffic - a $588-million pedestrian bridge.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TLCary 7/27/2022 10:36:21 PM (No. 1230592)
The Hoover Dam cost $49 million in 1930s, $860 million adjusted for inflation. This fancy bridge is about equivalent to the access roads (at nearly 70% the price). TVA just spent more years and more money fixing a leak in one of the dams than it cost to build it initially. Everything the government does is fraud, corrupt, waiste, and wildly inept. NASA can't get to the moon anymore, NASA can't even get to low Earth orbit (Russia Can, Private Industry Can, NASA Can't). But the worst part is that US civilization has degraded to the point it doesn't matter. Exhibit #1. How do we get our country back?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 7/27/2022 10:40:06 PM (No. 1230594)
$588,000,000 / 3,500 feet = $168,000/foot
Class dismissed
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Norway 7/27/2022 10:50:59 PM (No. 1230598)
Los Angeles in 2022: This why we can't have nice things.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
formerNYer 7/27/2022 10:59:26 PM (No. 1230602)
Escape from L.A.-- where's Snake Plissken when you need him.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/27/2022 11:13:21 PM (No. 1230614)
Reminds me of one of stalin’s famous bridges.
Merit is gone. Replaced by the first openly gay this that and the other.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/27/2022 11:14:19 PM (No. 1230616)
What features make it an "Architectural Marvel"? A bunch of built in LED lights?
These sort of projects are mere megamillion$ "Cathedrals" to a govt 'roads' Bureaucracy.
Similar "Most expensive in Ohio History" project cost numerous lives while being built, to cross a river at a point you can literally throw a rock across, now both center lanes need to be closed to traffic anytime there is any ice/snow, because falling chunks land in the lanes. It's central tower in covered in led lights "capable of MILLIONS of combinations"...but it's default is merely a rainbow gay flag.(even though it is a veterans memorial...the only time they make it red/white/blue is major 'military' holidays)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
slipstik 7/27/2022 11:24:53 PM (No. 1230621)
Why would one waste hundreds of millions in the middle of a snothole created by the same government that spent the hundreds of millions? I'm sorry, you can't have "...nice things..." when you've created a snothole for it to be in. Stupidity on steroids.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 7/28/2022 2:57:48 AM (No. 1230670)
My home town. When I was a kid, it was so cool. The beaches were clean and uncrowded. Everything was new in the suburbs. Hollywood was exciting to visit; the big theaters were so glamorous. Downtown offered shopping in beautiful department stores and dining in fine restaurants. The LAPD was respected world-wide, crime was low. The freeways were wide and traffic actually moved most of the time. Then the hippies swarmed in from all over the country. Then every wanna be actor and director. Then the hordes of ever-present losers and crazies that were left to their own devices. Then the "progressives" got complete control of the city government. Then the Rodney King riot. Then...then...then...
Fast forward to today. Paradise lost. I weep for the City of Angels.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LoneVoice 7/28/2022 6:53:35 AM (No. 1230763)
Los Angeles, was formerly The City of Angels. Now it’s The City of Fallen Angels, Los Diablos.
It’s easier to call it Smell A.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/28/2022 7:18:28 AM (No. 1230785)
Oh, by the way, how is that Bullet Train to nowhere coming along? I have more respect for an armed robber boosting a Bo-ga-da (Sp?) than any of these governmental thieves.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ironchefw 7/28/2022 7:51:38 AM (No. 1230818)
At least the California "bullet train" is safe from these kinds of shenanigans.
Good thing they haven't finished building it yet.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
southernboy 7/28/2022 8:09:50 AM (No. 1230832)
I remember when California was a Class Act!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/28/2022 8:20:12 AM (No. 1230839)
No outcry yet that the closure of the bridge is raciss and depriving the black car thieves of their rights. These stupid street stunts get people killed as do the carjackings that provide them with the race cars. It doesn't help that Chrysler has a new commercial that shows their performance cars doing donuts and other stupid stunts that promote sales of the high-horsepower toys. Apparently nobody needs an AR-15 but they need overpowered cars that can burn their tires off in a matter of minutes. Where are the anti-HP activists?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 7/28/2022 8:51:19 AM (No. 1230875)
This is why L.A. can't have nice things...
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Lawless Angeles.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/28/2022 10:59:13 AM (No. 1231043)
The latest is that they will be installlng speed bumps on this ridiculously fancy new bridge, which immediately became an attractive nuisance.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
rochow 7/28/2022 7:27:25 PM (No. 1231502)
Newsom gruesome cut the ribbons????
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