Yesterday's KC Star
"It was well past time for something to be done for it to be the road that people deserve and need,” Demory said.
That would be Sean Demory, spokesman for KCMO Public Works in referring to the Barry Road Project. Must have been a slow news day as reporter Glenn Rice summarizes in a tidy manner a very messy project, as all the readers of the blog are readily aware. Rice mentions "city officials" announced a new bridge in 2004...and a "routine" bridge inspection caused the closing of the bridge in 2008. That might have been a good point for Mr Rice to pause and say, what happened during those 4 years? Answer nothing. Except the fact KCMO continued to ignore maintenance on the bridge until it became a royal pain in the *ss for KCMO, which conveniently decided to close the bridge for safety concerns.
“The bridge not had any substance work done on it for decades. Frankly, we had been patching it and it was time to bring it up to modern standards,” Demory said.
Hey Glenn, a good question would have been, on the issue of "decades" why? BTW the bridge report was equivocal. The day the actual destruction of the BRB took place I went down to watch. During a break in the action I asked the foreman his opinion of the bridge. Pointing to the mangled iron that was once the supporting structure he said it was "very solid" and didn't seem to be an issue. The cement pylons were rock solid. The bridge was not giving up without a fight.
So in the end, it was KCMO's neglect, lack of interest and lack of money to make repairs and pressure from a "group of citizens" which caused KCMO to do a Duran and say, "No Mas". The bridge was closed, and four years later all was good on Barry Road.
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/22/3771730/transformation-of-barry-road-now.html
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