So…?
This seems like a pretty cut and dry case of an industry group promoting their economic interest over public safely in a laughably obvious way, right?
[Rhode Island] has proposed banning vehicles with more than two axles from two key bridges that are weakened by deterioration, the Route 24 bridge over the Sakonnet River and the Route 95 bridge over the Pawtucket River.
The state says that the weight limits it has imposed on both bridges aren’t working well enough, while the trucking industry says that the state’s plan would fall most heavily on local businesses and force thousands of trucks that aren’t heavily loaded to take detours.
The clash of interests the plan raises — the cost and inconvenience of detours versus the need to protect two major bridges that are failing — points to the difficulty the state is having maintaining its transportation system.
Just to recap, the clash of interests are:
- Cost and inconvenience of detours
- Failing bridges
Seems like an easy choice to me.
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