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Re: South Ferry (1) Train Station Fix Could Take Up To 3 YEARS!!! |
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Posted by Sand Box John on Fri Jan 18 09:27:59 2013, in response to Re: South Ferry (1) Train Station Fix Could Take Up To 3 YEARS!!!, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jan 18 03:11:57 2013. Several years ago, Discovery channel did an "Extreme Engineering" show on what it took to build the one that just blew up ... went looking for an archive of it somewhere to post here, but no luck at all in finding it. I remember that show and all the details of just how difficult a project the original one was. Which is why I'm first on line to spank the MTA over "you didn't put waterproofing in all that contract paperwork?!?!?!"But what got built down there is THAT complicated, given everything that they had to build around without making it fall over on top of it when they built it. I can understand the costs involved. I can't understand the expectation that it would never get wet though. :( As I recall most of the video in that episode was shot during excavation, so we didn't get to see what was done to waterproof the envelope of the station. In the thread [Poll] Who will be the first in the nation to expand their Heavy Rail system? I wrote this: "Based on what I saw in the episode of Extreme Engineering of the South Ferry station last night, the odds are even or slightly favoring WMATA as to who will open first. My commentary on the incompetence that I saw in that episode is for a different thread." I never wrote and post that commentary because I wanted to rescreen the episode to point out all that I saw. Never got the opportunity to rescreen the episode. Nothing that I would have written in that post would have mentioned anything about hardening the station in the event of high water. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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