I much perfer the bow bringing in a world famous sculpture guy to do public art paid for by Encana/ whoever own's it now then the city funding it. I like the city's beautification policy of spending 1% of TIC on making it look nice but these bridges are ridiculus. 25 million for a 5 million dollar bridge. Say all you want about being world class but at 5 times the cost I will take second class anyday.
When you go to london the only new structures were the millenium projects everything else built in the last hundred years has been strictly utilitarian. Hiring a architect who adds 5% to a billion dollar building to make it a signiture buliding is a lot better then spending 500% more on a new bridge.
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