3 years ago, a large gas pipe ruptured and blew up a neighborhood in a Northern Californian suburb. They just finished rebuilding the houses and repaved the street. The legal fight, however, will easily last another decade...
Still, what the article says is true. Much of the piping under our cities is quite old and in sore need of repair or replacement. Pity that the Republicans kept killing bill after bill by Obama to use taxpayer money for this purpose. It's no wonder, then, that the US Corp Of Engineers rates the US Infrastructure at around D+.
Charley is right. Most of this country's essential physical infrastructure is anywhere from fifty to 100 years old. This was the point of having a well financed 'Jobs Program'. Replacing all of our failing infrastructure will take decades if not longer.
By NOT doing this there will be a cascade of infrastructure failures. Dams, dikes, seawalls, bridges, roads, park facilities, water and sewer pipes, pipelines, city streets, schools and public buildings and facilities are ALL in danger of failure.
If people do sue Con Ed it's Con Ed's fault for not using the income that its had to stay on top of their plant account... if the let it run down to the point where the public suffers they should be sued.
Its true here in Los Angeles. We had a bunch of watermain breaks back to back all over the place a few years ago one of which created a sink hole that swallowed a fire engine the cause very old pipes nearly a century old. Now what I want to know is where the leak was out in the street or in the buildings because either the gas Co is to blame or the slumlord who was too cheap to repair his property
People can't sue because the pipes are old. Most large cities have old water pipes, sewer systems, gas lines, etc. And the systems work OK - but need repairing more often than new pipes. Anyone who suffered a death in their family, loss of their home, loss of income, physical injury, etc. can sue if they reported the gas leak and it took 2 days for the city to respond. They can sue over failure to repair which put their lives at risk.
"every black in Harlem"
That was a Puerto Rican neighborhood, numb nuts.
Say I yes!
Yesterday's explosion.
Congressman Charley Rangel said on the radio.
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Mark my words, every black in Harlem, will sue the Con Edison gas company.
What say you ?
