An insight into why we will repair the viaduct

It's just too much trouble to do anything "big" and requires endless adjustments to the surroundings. Of course some people think that's a good thing i.e. to precipitate big and dramatic and unpredictable;e change.. But in the end, and luckily, they are not the ones who will make the decisions.

Things Fall Apart, but Some Big Old Things Don’t

“You cannot just replace the old stock with new stock, without changing a lot of stuff around it,” said Viren Doshi, a London-based consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, who has studied the telephone and electricity industries. “So they keep on patching up the old stuff.”