{"id":54415,"date":"2020-07-27T07:09:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54415"},"modified":"2020-07-27T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:07:13","slug":"best-laid-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54415","title":{"rendered":"Best Laid Schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Best Laid Schemes<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A Really Neat Bridge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o\u2019 mice an\u2019 men
Gang aft agley,
An\u2019 lea\u2019e us nought but grief an\u2019 pain,
For promis\u2019d joy!<\/em><\/p>

\u2013 Robert Burns, To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough (in extract), 1785<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Installation of the final cable support pipes on the Gerald Desmond bridge replacement. Here is a drone video<\/a> of the project. [PT]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo by Scott Varley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grand plans of our local officials in Long Beach have been foiled by the corona-virus bug.  After seven years of construction, at a cost of $1.5 billion, they can\u2019t even hold a proper ribbon-cutting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The special occasion is the grand opening of the new, yet to be named, Gerald Desmond Bridge replacement.  To prevent the spread of COVID-19, a virtual ceremony is planned for the Friday leading into the Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virtual ceremonies, like professional baseball games with recorded fan noises<\/a>, are Dumb with a capital D.  But, perhaps, this is the fitting grand opening of an edifice that was planned and constructed for a world that may never arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly, the new bridge structure, which has the highest vertical clearance of any cable-stayed bridge in the US, is a remarkable engineering achievement.  The cable-stayed design also has a signature aesthetic. We have watched it go up over the years; it really is extraordinary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two towers rise up to roughly 515 feet above mean sea level, and include 40 cables per tower. The bridge\u2019s linear extent is approximately 8,800 feet.  The cable-stayed span alone is 2,000 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Laid Schemes A Really Neat Bridge But, Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,In proving foresight may be vain;The best-laid schemes o\u2019 mice an\u2019 menGang aft agley,An\u2019 lea\u2019e us nought but grief an\u2019 pain,For promis\u2019d joy! \u2013 Robert Burns, To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough (in extract), 1785 Installation of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6703,11763,4856,805],"class_list":["post-54415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-alt-market","tag-mn-gordon","tag-shipping","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54416,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54415\/revisions\/54416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}