It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred...
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Eric Dale:
Do you know I built a bridge once? Will Emerson:
Sorry? Eric Dale:
A bridge. Will Emerson:
No, I didn't know that. Eric Dale:
I was an engineer by trade. Will Emerson:
Hmmm... hmmm Eric Dale:
It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred and twelve feet above the Ohio River. Twelve thousand people used this thing a day. And it cut out thirty-five miles of driving each way between Wheeling and New Martinsville. That's a combined 847,000 miles of driving a day. Or 25,410,000 miles a month. And 304,920,000 miles a year. Saved. Now I completed that project in 1986, that's twenty-two years ago. So over the life of that one bridge, that's 6,708,240,000 miles that haven't had to be driven. At, what, let's say fifty miles an hour. So that's, what, 134,165,800 hours, or 559,020 days. So that one little bridge has saved the people of those communities a combined 1,531 years of their lives not wasted in a fucking car. One thousand five hundred and thirty-one years
Do you know I built a bridge once? Will Emerson:
Sorry? Eric Dale:
A bridge. Will Emerson:
No, I didn't know that. Eric Dale:
I was an engineer by trade. Will Emerson:
Hmmm... hmmm Eric Dale:
It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred and twelve feet above the Ohio River. Twelve thousand people used this thing a day. And it cut out thirty-five miles of driving each way between Wheeling and New Martinsville. That's a combined 847,000 miles of driving a day. Or 25,410,000 miles a month. And 304,920,000 miles a year. Saved. Now I completed that project in 1986, that's twenty-two years ago. So over the life of that one bridge, that's 6,708,240,000 miles that haven't had to be driven. At, what, let's say fifty miles an hour. So that's, what, 134,165,800 hours, or 559,020 days. So that one little bridge has saved the people of those communities a combined 1,531 years of their lives not wasted in a fucking car. One thousand five hundred and thirty-one years
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Do you know I built a bridge once
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Sorry A bridge
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No I didn't know that
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I was an engineer by trade
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It went from Dilles Bottom Ohio to Moundsville West Virginia
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It spanned 912 feet above the Ohio River
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12 100 people use this thing a day
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And it cut out 35 miles of extra driving each way
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between Wheeling and New Martinsville
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That's a combined 847 000 miles of driving a day
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Movie Summary
Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
Actors
Eric Dale
Will Emerson
