Bridges and Delays.

Most of the time a solution to a problem is the most direct route, a head on conclusion or a direct response.

In that same train of thought someone in some age decided to build bridges. They connect things seemingly unconnectable and have for years provided a considerably smaller course for many transit systems across history.

Today in St. Louis a bridge repair plan has been delayed until the fall, which means that the some eight hundred bridges slated for repair will also be delayed.

Although I'm not one for politics, I do see this as a problem. I mean has the history of the United States ever shown procrastination as a solution? Have we ever had, and are we repeating, a history of planning and not doing? Has any creation of civil engineering failed after we've already noticed it needed a pick me up?

I'm starting to feel a bit lost in this world of maps and direction. I feel like Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, having that one thing to work toward only finished in time to be dis-repaired.