Tie Plate Wrote:
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> I love seeing a reporter regurgitate information
> he/she doesn't understand. I'm assuming the
> inspectors based their findings on the maximum
> load the structures could conceivably face with
> modern cars. Doubtful they'll ever see anything
> heavier than empty cars headed to/from storage and
> some deadheading passenger equipment heading up to
> Santa Cruz. Pegging it at just over a million
> more than outlined in a study a number of years
> ago looks like getting off easy. Of course this
> proper inspection should have been done when they
> were still negotiating, but it appears this is SOP
> for that county agency.

You are spot on. I watched the entire meeting and Jason Hoppin from the Sentinel incorrectly reported the details on the bridges and misrepresented everything Dan Davis JL Patterson said.