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Speaking of Pennsyltucky bridge replacement nonsense, there's a little village in NEPA called Aldenville and a large stream runs through it. The stream twists and turns, and the main road that twists its way through the village crosses the stream twice in a short distance. So you have these two bridges.
It's getting to be a couple decades ago that this happened, but it feels like it was fairly recent. One bridge was your typical modern bridge that is well built and you don't even notice as you drive over it, and the other bridge was a narrow one lane steel bridge, riveted together, was all rusty, and had dents at both ends where trucks had hit it over the years.
Pennsyltucky decided to replace the bridge, so they did a XOXOBruce style replacement job of the more modern bridge. It took a while, and residents were confused about their choice of bridges to replace, but whatever. The new new bridge was also pretty nice, just like the old new bridge, and they continued to be careful driving over the narrow old rusty bridge. Then a couple years later, Pennsyltucky realized they replaced the wrong bridge, and finally replaced the old narrow bridge. And now cars fly through the little village because they don't need to be careful on the bridge.
This was all explained to me by my aunt, who lived in Aldenville before she passed. Maybe it's not entirely true about the order of replacement being a mistake, but I did see both bridges get replaced, and not in the order that I would have replaced them based on my observations as a driver.
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