Once upon a time (in the 17th century to be exact), the West Brabant Line in the Netherlands was a series of fortresses surrounded by water that was used to fill moats and keep foot soldiers from s…
I mean nearly the entire Netherlands is dependent on dams and pumps working. If this bridge were ever to overflow I would not be confident in the rest of the country staying above water for long. The bridge is like an infrastructure canary.
Which is a big part of why I said “it’s the Dutch.”
I don’t know anything about this being an ‘infrastructure canary,’ however. TBH, I’d tend to hope that they don’t assign nearly the specialised resources to this project as they do far more critical works. Because this is mostly just a fun little project, right…?
I mean, it’s certainly not officially an infrastructure canary but if I lived in a Dutch region dependent on dams and pumps working, I’d be quite concerned if this bridge were to flood.
It shouldn’t take too much effort to keep the bridge in working condition (I assume - it wouldn’t have been built if it was prohibitively expensive to maintain) so if it does get flooded there is something going very wrong.
I mean nearly the entire Netherlands is dependent on dams and pumps working. If this bridge were ever to overflow I would not be confident in the rest of the country staying above water for long. The bridge is like an infrastructure canary.
Which is a big part of why I said “it’s the Dutch.”
I don’t know anything about this being an ‘infrastructure canary,’ however. TBH, I’d tend to hope that they don’t assign nearly the specialised resources to this project as they do far more critical works. Because this is mostly just a fun little project, right…?
I mean, it’s certainly not officially an infrastructure canary but if I lived in a Dutch region dependent on dams and pumps working, I’d be quite concerned if this bridge were to flood.
It shouldn’t take too much effort to keep the bridge in working condition (I assume - it wouldn’t have been built if it was prohibitively expensive to maintain) so if it does get flooded there is something going very wrong.