12/8/2004: Millau viaduct

Griff · 12-19-2004, 07:32 AM

When the cost of these kinds of public works get passed off on the public at large it is annoying no matter how attractive the structure. I'm glad this is a toll bridge so the cost will be bourne by the user. San Fran should do the same thing if they need a bridge. NYS recently put a pretty little bridge across the Susquehanna into Owego. It does make a nice entrance into town landing right at the courthouse but it would've been nice to have the users pay for it. If you know anything about NY politics these kinds of projects are not by any stretch determined by need but rather by political clout.

Anybody see the numbers on the Big Dig? I read somewhere that the cost of the dig is going to be about $25,000 for every man woman and child living in the city of Boston. Runaway expenses have everything to do with cost shifting.

As far as saftey goes its my understanding that this is a proven design developed to eliminate the occilations that wrecked the Florida bridge. Look at all the countryside they didn't destroy building it. And it is freaking beautiful, I'd pay to drive it.

12-19-2004, 07:32 AM	#35
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	When the cost of these kinds of public works get passed off on the public at large it is annoying no matter how attractive the structure. I'm glad this is a toll bridge so the cost will be bourne by the user. San Fran should do the same thing if they need a bridge. NYS recently put a pretty little bridge across the Susquehanna into Owego. It does make a nice entrance into town landing right at the courthouse but it would've been nice to have the users pay for it. If you know anything about NY politics these kinds of projects are not by any stretch determined by need but rather by political clout. Anybody see the numbers on the Big Dig? I read somewhere that the cost of the dig is going to be about $25,000 for every man woman and child living in the city of Boston. Runaway expenses have everything to do with cost shifting. As far as saftey goes its my understanding that this is a proven design developed to eliminate the occilations that wrecked the Florida bridge. Look at all the countryside they didn't destroy building it. And it is freaking beautiful, I'd pay to drive it. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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