Northbank Riverwalk Collapses under weight of City's Incompetence
Engineering consultants had marked the piers as structurally deficient in inspection reports dating back to 2002.
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What more can be said?
yeah. and believe me, this is lots of fun for those of us who work in the court house. falling about building. falling apart roads. they fit.
From as far back as Ed Austin's tenure the administrations have KNOWN that the North Bank needed repairs. Its ludicroud to say that no one knew that the decay was not an issue. Spend the 30-50 million needed to fix and repair the pilings now. The riverwalk is too big a draw to have a potentially deadly accident. After all, the entire courthouse parking lot is built on top of the water with the same pilings.
The decision to defer maintenance indefinitely is another one of those great on the MONEY master planning decisions that the current administration is so renowned for. Too bad it broke while Peyton was still in office. You know what they say; sometimes you bite the bear and sometimes the bear bites you.... But look on the bright side, it will take concrete to fix that mess.
This is the oldest trick in a politician's magic hat. The only problem is that it is a game of musical chairs, and if you are still in office when the music stops, you don't get a chair.
6 months and counting. The riverwalk is still closed with no sign of any work being done.
Does anyone want to place bets that it will look the same in another 6 months??