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Anonymous wrote:Nice quotes, but the main thrust of the article is that a new bridge will be needed eventually, even if it will be politically difficult and very expensive.

Eh, no. That's just some people expressing their opinions, based on the ideas that everyone is always going to have to drive everywhere and will always continue to do so in ever greater numbers. The bridge itself is structurally sound.

The bridge is not sound over the medium term. No bridge that age is. And everyone is going to drive everywhere is even greater numbers. Remote work is not going to change that. And if everyone gets EVs -- plan on more driving not less as no one will feel guilty and no gas cost.

It just needs redecking. Didn't you read the article?

This is false, you either cannot read or you are a liar counting on other people not reading the article.

“State highway officials have recently increased the sense of urgency about the bridge’s replacement. A 2020 draft environmental study of the toll lanes project said the bridge needed to be replaced “sometime over the next few decades.” In the final analysis released in June, that wording had been changed to “sometime over the next decade.””

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice quotes, but the main thrust of the article is that a new bridge will be needed eventually, even if it will be politically difficult and very expensive.

Eh, no. That's just some people expressing their opinions, based on the ideas that everyone is always going to have to drive everywhere and will always continue to do so in ever greater numbers. The bridge itself is structurally sound.

It is the “professional opinion” of actually structural engineering professionals with the state of Maryland that the bridge needs to be re-decked in the next few years and ultimately replaced. The idea that you put “professional opinions” of experts on the same level as your opinion or the opinions of non-experts is a good example of why Montgomery County faces so many problems. Too many people like you who think you know better than experts.