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How the heck is this safe or acceptable?
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There is also, you know, the GQP fighting against any kind of infrastructure funding because that's "socialism" or something.
Also, love that movie!
What movie is it?
Fight club. Turns out, the scene is based on facts from US car manufacturers' memos. Link to scene:
It's from Fight Club. I can't recall if the quote is the same in the book, but this matches the movie version.
Fight club? Just a guess.
"...which company did you say you worked for?"
A major one
Well, it's not. But repairs cost money, and any money spent on those repairs is money that won't go to the billionaire ruling class. Obviously that's no good.
If it's found a company knew about the problem they should get 5x the pay out.
Nah, companies need to be blown to bits for corruption like that. Hand the company to the FTC to be broken apart Bell Telephone style with a 10 year ban on mergers or acquisition for any mini-company created by the breakup. And make it retroactive for any corruption exposed since the turn of the current century. Make corporate corruption so risky nobody does it anymore plus you can break up all of the monopolies that formed over the last few decades while you're at it, plus you're not sending designated scapegoats to prison Hudsucker-style
Counter proposal: what if we made corporate corruption so easy that it made capitalism work at 500% capacity?
(Side note: comes at expense of millions of people, the world, etc.)
Sound fair? Tough shit. We’re doing it either way.
This picture is old. It's been fixed for a few years. And this support was under an unused section of the bridge. The whole bridge was 3 train lines wide at first. And for freight traffic. But it had been repurposed into local passenger rail utilizing only 2 lines. Those lines not going over this section of the bridge. Was essentially so over engineered for it's current use that some supports being neglected wasn't urgent.
The bigger hurdle was wrapping up design and approval to build a whole new station at this spot and fix the bridge as part of that project scope.