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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
I'm anti-bridge and not a suburbanite. I fail to see why because money is wasted elsewhere (which it is) why that excuses this specific waste of money.
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Nope, I think you may have missed the point. (Or just don't ever support building anything anytime so it is a mute point).
You
think it is a waste because you don't use it, are not properly calculating its actual premium relative other engineering options, are not able to see all the ways it will create 'value' in the city over time (and thus a hidden return on investment v. other options) etc etc.
Just like someone who doesn't use a far flung suburban interchange may not value it, value not sitting in traffic, or the inherent value found in having predictable and free flow of goods and services through our city/province.
The point is that BOTH have value to someone and both 'someones' have contributed revenues to the provincial coffers. And while inner-city folks have largely allowed unfettered growth (and COST) to continue on and on and on and on to add up to billions and billions in yearly expenditures, the reverse is not seemingly the case for a mere $24M dollars, and now those that benefit from one are stopping the other.
I see in your wording that you are kind of saying that neither spending is good, but by that logic we should never build anything ever. Great for the wealthy elite and/or those that live out of a text book but I have read study after study that show that the best places in the world to live have marginally higher taxes but much greater public infrastrucutre within which to live.
Hundreds of thousands of peopl will use this bridge daily/weekly. I think people are really really underestimating the amount of /user use this bridge will get. The cost will likely be well below $0.001/user within a few short years -- and the bridge will likely stand for a century or more after that.
Claeren.