I know this stating the obvious, but I see this as a MAJOR civil engineering failure. How (dramatic pause) can anyone, let alone many ones, plan a city this way? I know, it evolved into this, the history of which I'm sure has plenty of justification along the way. But I am still at an absolute loss to understand, especially in today's day and age with mentalities like OSHA, EPA, etc, etc. where you almost need precedure and permission to breath, and yet they would alow this gun to slowly be loaded, cocked and let mother nature pull the trigger. Where was the redundancy?? Was the contigency plan all along to abandon ship??
I am not a big fan of regulation, but I don't see how you can justify allowing to rebuild without MAJOR improvments. I'm sure it will get rebuilt, but I think it is irresponsible to allow something that will put the foolish and irrational at risk as well the the rational that will be called upon to rescue.
