Future
In 2004 the New York State Department of Transportation began studies on the Fire Island Inlet span due to flaws in the cement used for its construction. Currently repairs are being undertaken to extend the life and safety of the bridge. These repairs—groundbreaking for a new bridge—were expected to be finished in 2010. It is assumed that the new bridge will be built to the west of the current structure; the new span will be four lanes, two southbound and two northbound. The new bridge is expected to retain the look of the old one, for aesthetic conformity with the other bridges of the bay. After the new bridge is constructed, the original span will be removed. Implosion is not thought to be the best method of deconstruction. Instead it is more likely the bridge will be disassembled and removed by crane.
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“The Mind in Infancy is, methinks, like the Body in Embrio, and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any Mark with which a Child is born is to be taken away by any future Application.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
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—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)