NHDOT Are Scumbags

Update Nov 5

The Keene Sentinel and 99% of the mega rich newspapers owners are infected with the same philosophical mental model defect. Basically, me saying two plus two equals four. They would come back, I can't report that because you showed me no proof. The bankrupted black and white philosophy of them picking and choosing what is evidence and proof that is needed to report the truth to the best of their ability. They are too lazy to get off their fat asses to see something beyond the surface truth and their simpleton model of how the world in their heads works. Usually there is a agenda under this: I've got a keep my job and feed my family and the owners got to make the paper comport to their own monied ideology. More likely, I will never get advertising revenue if I tell what is really going on.    

***Why can't the Keene Sentinel connect the dots? I hear rumors they are shutting down. Most of their facility, including the front desk, are a shithole. 

I think this state wide NHDOT inspections on Truss bridges comes out of my activities with the Brattleboro/Hinsdale route 119 bridge. I have been accusing the state of doing fraudulent bridge inspection based on politics and favors beginning in 2011. I have been saying for many years now the conditions of the bridges are a lot worst than the bridge NHDOT inspections. This year it went from a perfectly safe bridge to a red listed bridge needing a special inspection every 6 months. From a normal five year bridge inspection schedule to a once every 6 months inspection. The next inspection grade down is a shutdown. For years now, I have been picturing up the horrible conditions of my bridges. The facts on the ground here is the state has no engineering mechanism to predict the decline with this ancient bridge. This is what was proven in Hinsdale this year.

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The rub here, with the skimpy state inspections, they don't collect enough data points to truly understand the accurate condition of the bridge inspection and be able to anticipate the material degradations. Fixated on the black and white engineering philosophy of facts and evidence. Can't image what information is missing from your skimpy inspections process. As I've said for years, their inspection presses are made flawed for political considerations, but they think their processes are dead on accurate. Honestly, the only people allowed to inspect the bridges should be highly educated and trained state employees. The state should have total control of these employees and they not be loyal be loyal to any other interest. But this is the NH advantage? Hate governed and barely fund the NH agencies. I don't trust the  bridge inspection contractor. As I said before, the non government bridge inspection contractor is only answerable to money and profits...         

The new bridge's price is somewhere near $60 Million dollars...

There is a high probability 

Nov 4

Lane closures slated on Charlestown bridge

By Sentinel Staff

12 hrs ago

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CHARLESTOWN — Motorists who travel the bridge that carries Route 11 across the Connecticut River between Charlestown and Springfield, Vt., can expect up to five days of lane closures starting Monday, the N.H. Department of Transportation has announced.

The closures are to allow for what the department describes in a news release as an “in-depth inspection” of the span. The inspection is part of a statewide effort to assess the condition of New Hampshire’s truss bridges, according to the state transportation department.

The closures will be in effect daily as needed, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., as weather allows.

Drivers will be alerted to the lane closures by people with flags as well as by warning signs, and they’re encouraged to use other routes if possible due to the resulting delays.