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Originally Posted by Joborule
I don't get what the whole problem is. It's just a bridge. We have LRT extensions and new lines getting built, new highways, roads, and interchanges constantly being built/expanded. We're going to spend far above hundreds of millions on transportation projects year by year, but we get all up on a tizzy of $25 million bridge from a world famous architecture to improve the viability and attractiveness of downtown? Which only cost a small fraction of our annual transportation budget?
Things have greatly gotten blown out of proportions. It's like because of this bridge something that was gonna get built is not going to get built now. Heaven forbid we let a world class architecture make a bridge in our city! We don't welcome them!
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Exactly. So many people are getting their panties in a bunch because of this bridge. I mean, you don't see me whining about the Crowfoot LRT extension, when I don't even use the LRT at all. This bridge I probably won't use (except to actually go see it when it's completed because it does look nice), but I'm not going to sit here and whine about it either because I think in the long run, it's going to be money well spent.
We're talking about 20 million for a infrastructure project, not 20 billion. Geez, people need to really understand scale when it comes to money used by the city. Bronco probably spends many times more than that on his projects of putting up roads, and then ripping them all up just to put one more lane.