Re:Groundbreaking new bridge design could transform rail cro...
by gumby on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:30PM
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This is true of big bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge as well.
Re:Groundbreaking new bridge design could transform rail cro...
by Someone on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @07:50AM
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That work typically is highly parallelizable, so you could do it in half the time, too (a year of maintenance, wait a year, a year of maintenance, etc)
From an operations viewpoint, it’s easier to pick a degree of parallelism that makes this a continuous operation.
You don’t have to close down and start up maintenance work, you don’t have to scale up and down the number of workers, etc.
(On farms, there’s an opposite force at work. Farming itself is highly cyclical (not much to do in winter, relatively), so maintenance was done cyclically, too)
This reminds me of some family members that lived on a boat. As soon as they finished maintaining one thing (e.g. painting), they could immediately start over again. It was an endless cycle of doing maintenance to the boat. They really wanted to live on a boat. Eventually they sold it and bought something else, though unsure if the maintenance was the cause.