Entrepreneurs: Start. This. Company. Now?
In response to a blogger at Entrepreneurs: Start. This. Company. Now. – washingtonpost.com.
I have always shied away from anything Tech Crunch, since it has been one of the most likely sites to report hoaxes and rumors. The above link was posted to PlaNetizen and went out to thousands of readers. I’m sure there are hundreds saying “Get your head out of your ass! We have that here!”
Those hundreds are in Tampa. They have an elevated freeway above the Lee Roy Selmon Cross Town Expressway. They were finished in 2007 or so. I’ve heard that they are really, really cool to use. It was also really, really expensive, and it suffered a setback after one of the support piers sunk, bringing a 3 lane section down to the ground level freeway below.
Another thing that should be pointed out is that in this country there are dozens of bridges that are double-decker. We have one here in Cincinnati, the Brent Spence Bridge, which carries I-71 and I-75 over the Ohio River.
That bridge needs to be rebuilt. It is roughly a half of a mile (including the approaches), and the costs are measured in the billions.
Dear author, if you are going to tell people to start a company, make sure it hasn’t already been started first.
EDITS:
(1) I figured I needed to come back to this and bring up an important issue that I only touched on. That is the potential for problems caused by natural disasters. After one of the “Big Ones” in California, it was brought up that Cincinnati is somewhat earthquake-prone. The thing that made the nightly news? ”Is the Brent Spence Bridge Going to Collapse if Cincinnati gets hit with a Big One?” Certainly the Tampa Crosstown Expressway sink was a scary, serious issue. It was one that was not planned for, and required a complete redesign of an area of the elevated expressway. The reason roads tend to be on the ground is because there is a limited set of catastrophic natural disasters that can happen.
(2) I dogged TechCrunch above, and I figured I should mention that despite my general poor opinion, I did read another article that sourced a number of topics to TechCrunch, and the source data sounds spot-on. I’m not a TechCrunch reader, and my opinions are still mixed.
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