Did you know....

That when you replace an existing bridge (aka knock it down, cart it away, and stick a pretty new one in) that you have an adverse effect on said existing bridge?

Yea. That's easily the most obvious statement on the face of the earth. Right up there with the sky is blue and water is wet.

And yet, I have to write a letter to the Historic Trust that EXPLAINS THAT. :cursing: And we've been working with them on this project for like 14 months! It's not exactly a freaking surprise!

Government red tape and BS never ceases to amaze me. The worst is that we probably have to include such a letter because we got sued in the past for not explaining that very thing. :thumbdown:

I thought of you last night Col, as I helped my neighbors daughter construct a covered bridge for a project at school. Turned out pretty neat, but wouldn't have handled any real weight. lol (made with wooden stir sticks & glue)

Sucks that you have to explain yourselves ... I mean, it does sound pretty self-explanitory.

So, let me get this straight... You have to write a letter describing the adverse effects on a bridge you've knocked down and carted away?

Am I understanding correctly?

*eye roll*

We haven't knocked it down yet, but we're going to, lol.

Yea, it's just one of those amazing things that I can't believe I have to do. Seems there is NO such thing as common sense anymore.

Yeah, cause a bridge has feelings right?

Sorry Col!

haha! that stinks for you!

I think of you all the time Col. My hubby is working on a couple bridges right now and he's gone to check out the progress of one of the every week for the past month or so. Sounds fun.

Did I tell you he passed his PE (barely) and his company gave him an Ipod Touch for it??

Oh that's awesome Sarah!! Tell him congatulations!!! I'm taking mine in a little over a year

Yea, this bridge hasn't even gone out for bids yet, so it'll be a while before I take weekly trips out to the site. But I should have 1 or 2 projects to do that for by the summer, which is awesome, cuz getting out of the office is SWEET!

That sounds exactly like the government I work for, Col.

My job only exists because they took this branch of the agency and moved them to a building across the street. They have to have a temp every session to haul papers back and forth from one branch of the agency to the next (and vice versa) EVEN THOUGH they have the technological capability HERE to print all the paperwork directly over THERE.

The people over there just don't want to have to collect the papers over there and put them in order, so they are printed HERE and put in order by the regular guy or me and then we take them over to the other building to be delivered directly into the waiting drafter's hands. The regular guy can't set up shop over there because then those people there wouldn't have access to the rough draft/edited with pen versions of their documents that they print out and mark up here, and there are 3 or 4 of the 28 people over there who look at those rough draft copies after we deliver them.

Isn't that ridiculous?!

I carry various amounts of paperwork back and forth between two different buildings 6-10x a day because of this line of thinking.

:cursing:

Omg LA! LOLOL! That's the dummest thing ever. What a WASTE of paper!!

It's because people are stupid.

This has become my mantra.

This and "it's not worth going to jail to ram the car PARKED in the road." i must tell myself these things twenty times a day.

LeeAndra said:

That sounds exactly like the government I work for, Col.


I carry various amounts of paperwork back and forth between two different buildings 6-10x a day because of this line of thinking.

:cursing:

Click to expand...

I could tell you stories about the goverment too but it gets my blood boiling way too much and plus I have no idea if I'd get fired so I'll just stop here!