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Originally Posted by Table 5
When you were in the army, did you take a vote on every military action? Or did you trust your commanders to do the right thing?
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Umm, when it came to procurement and spending money you can bet we went out to tender, I don't see how this is in any way the same. Your dealing with budget and taxpayer dollars on a project like this, then you go out to bid.
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Originally Posted by Table 5
I think sometimes you have to trust the people you put into power, and let them do their thing. Dissecting every little action will drive everyone mad and nothing will get done. If you don't agree, you can always make your vote count the next time.
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I don't think that the city council in its current form has done anything to earn that kind of level of trust.
I don't think I need to restate my objectives to this bridge, I did state them pretty clearly earlier in this post.
However after looking at the issues with the bridge projects in Dallas, I have a gut feeling that a 23 million dollar budget will suddenly explode to 40 or more million in actual costs, especially with the unique engineering issues with this bridge and its location. My preference would be to see a public feasibility study, or engineering study before we get all excited about this bridge.
Plus, its ugly.
If we were going to use international designs, we should have at least contacted more then this one individual. Cecil Balmond for example builds really nice structures
