[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Bill Pedersen]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote on November 30, 2011
>On 11/29/2011 11:56 PM, AEF wrote:
> On Nov 29, 12:45 pm, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca>  wrote:
>> AEF wrote:
>>> Well, understanding or otherwise, those who get the fat paychecks 
>>> won't care until the limo they're riding in goes over a bridge while 
>>> it's collapsing due to neglect due to lack of funding!
>>
>> This is happening in Qu bec.
>
> Is this a joke by you? The very name of the province is broken?
> Perhaps you could use an underscore to patch it up for now. (~_^)
>
>>
>> In the 1960s, a lot of money was spent to build Montreal into a large 
>> city. A huge elevated and complex highway interchange was built in 
>> montreal.  Well, this thing is expected to collapse any day now.  
>> They have people 7/24 applying duct tape to keep it together, but the 
>> govt doesn't have the money to rebuild it quickly enough that it 
>> won't cripple montreal's economy.
>>
>> Fiscal responsability since the 1990s has meant lots of cutbacks.
>>   And bridge maintenance cutbacks was something people didn't notice 
>> until a bridge collapsed and an inventory of the province's bridges 
>> showed that a whole bunch had been poorly maintained, were  reaching 
>> end of life and many were closed until they could be fixed. For some 
>> critical bridges, metal scaffoliding was added under it to help 
>> support the bridge.

>New York State had a similar problem.  A bridge on the NY Thruway collapsed
and people found themselves taking a flying lesson without their wings!
Something like six hundred feet straight down!  I'd say it was a little late
to start >maintaining their roads and bridges!!

When was this collapse?  The only one I am aware of is from 1987 and was the
result of poor design and a 50 flood which undercut the bridge.  The bridge
itself was 540 feet long over a creek.  About 50 to 100  feet down - still
enough to kill 10 people but not something which is recent and relevant to
current economic issues.

Of course, that said NY and specifically NYC have had infrastructure
maintenance issues for years...

Bill.