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Chicago has more than 412,000 lead service lines, the most of any city in the country. So far, the city has replaced roughly 14,000 lead pipes, which has cost more than $400 million over the last five years.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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$400 million for 14,000 pipes is almost $30,000/pipe. I think Chicago could find a cheaper way to do it. DJT should tell them that.
Picture shows an improperly shored excavations . Foreman should be charged with endangering the lives of the workers !!!
Why would Chicago want money from a king? Chicago and Illinois have been lobbing grenades at the feds since Dementia Joe left office. Now they want money? Laughable.
How about NO!
This lead pipe issue will be with Chicago
for another 100 years. The installation teams
are a joke, mostly unsupervised and union
to boot. The project will never be finished in
two lifetimes. Timeline for one installation, open
the trench then break time, finish the trench now
lunch, finally find the lead water line, breaktime.
breakover 3:00pm time to clock out.
on and on over the decades.