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Califbill

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On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:35:10 -0500, Keyser Söze
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On 2/22/15 8:33 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:26:38 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/22/15 1:14 PM, wrote:

Yes, I always thought it commendable what Florida did with the pier.
But they're not keeping the bridge spans structurally sound.
About 5-6 years ago they closed the eastern side of the piers because of
that. The western side is 17 years newer, but its time will come.
Cutting the available space in half made it much less attractive for me.

I guess it will come down to how much money they can afford to spend
on this.

I thought you loonytarians were in favor of government not doing
anything even if stuff falls apart.

You really do not want to start a discussion about deficient bridges.
Maryland doesn't look so good and the reason is, Florida does not
divert road tax money for other pork barrel projects.
The question is how much fishermen are willing to chip in to maintain
an interstate bridge ... just for a fishing pier.

You don't fish. How much of your tax money would you want to spend on
these piers? Maybe they could raid the bike lane money. ;-)

The reason is Florida doesn't have freeze-thaw-salt cycles for the most
part on its bridges and highways.

Not much freezing but plenty of salt, up under the bridge, not up on
the deck and it is warmer here so corrosion is speeded up (I assume
you took a little chemistry). We just fix them, we don't ignore them
and spend road tax money elsewhere.

... and you dodged the other question. Would you as a non-fisher, want
your tax money spent on fishing piers. That IS what we were talking
about.

They are trying to pass a new tax for road repairs in California. Say we
do not have the money. We passed a law a few years ago that says gas tax
money has to go for roads, unless we have a financial crises. They are
still stealing the gas tax. There is probably a $100 billion in iou's from
the general fund for money from the gas tax ripped off. Plus they use it
for car pool lanes, bike lanes, mass transit.