Granted that the failure of Seawall Road does not have the region-wide impacts of the collapse of I-95 in Philadelphia or the ship strike on the Francis Scott Key Bridge and closure of the Port of Baltimore, but locally its impact cannot be overstated. So this is a time for our representatives in the state legislature and the governor to show the same leadership and out-of-the box thinking that Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Josh Shapiro and Wes Moore did and get MDOT to open the road ASAP with a temporary fix. The MDOT bureaucracy needs a sharp wake up call!
I have a sense of humor but it usually fails me when it comes to bureaucratic stupidity. My dad owned an engineering company and we did engineering layout for roads all the time. Any decent contractor could make that section of road useable in nothing flat for far, far, less than some idiotic study of the "feasibility of temporary repairs." I don't know the current state of the rocks thrown up by the storm but if they are still in place they could be spread out and they'd probably make a good base for a new temporary roadbed.
Granted that the failure of Seawall Road does not have the region-wide impacts of the collapse of I-95 in Philadelphia or the ship strike on the Francis Scott Key Bridge and closure of the Port of Baltimore, but locally its impact cannot be overstated. So this is a time for our representatives in the state legislature and the governor to show the same leadership and out-of-the box thinking that Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Josh Shapiro and Wes Moore did and get MDOT to open the road ASAP with a temporary fix. The MDOT bureaucracy needs a sharp wake up call!
I have a sense of humor but it usually fails me when it comes to bureaucratic stupidity. My dad owned an engineering company and we did engineering layout for roads all the time. Any decent contractor could make that section of road useable in nothing flat for far, far, less than some idiotic study of the "feasibility of temporary repairs." I don't know the current state of the rocks thrown up by the storm but if they are still in place they could be spread out and they'd probably make a good base for a new temporary roadbed.