Further administrative delays push Bellaire Bridge demolition back still further.
There are times in this business when the planets align, the Gods smile, and the headlines and stories just seem to write themselves. Just a week after we uploaded our podcast on a Europe-wide study on administrative burdens comes a story of a bridge that is seemingly being held up by nothing more than paperwork.
As we have reported previously, the demolition of the Bellaire Bridge had been delayed by a variety of unforeseen administrative hold-ups. Several weeks on and those hold-ups apparently show now sign of subsiding. Despite now owning the bridge in question, Delta Demolition seems to have run headlong into a series of obstacles constructed almost entirely from red tape.
“Just like any contractor who comes to town to do any work, we require them to have a contractor’s license, workers comp, provide insurance and provide us guarantees that they own the bridge. They own the property, and they are going to do the work satisfactory so we don’t have any problems down the road,” said David McLaughlin, Benwood Code Enforcement officer.
Delta Demolition said it has also discovered asbestos in the window frames on the old toll shacks. The demolition crew now has to wait for results to come back for the shacks
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