Well this looks like Europe, so if it’s EU funds this could have been a really expensive project
Comment on How much did it cost to create a 10 foot long bike lane
tetris11@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
This is a good shitpost.
- With cheap underpaid undocumented labor? Probably not much
- Through guaranteed union contracts so that such laborers can actually build lives in the countries they work in? Probably a lot.
Is that “a lot” even a drop in the bucket of government expenditure? Not by a long shot. Are we told to get angry about it by right-wing media? Oh you betcha
kameecoding@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
Drop in what bucket?
The one we keep the deficit? The interest on existing debt are paid with new loans. This bucket has no bottom. Money is seizing to have its own value in the long run and the numbers are just a measurement of consumed energy.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
Nah it would have cost the city the same regardless, you’re just talking about how much the civils business pays its workers.
Most likely this would have been part of a larger project of installing cycle lanes in various places. But it still would have been expensive, civil contractors are notorious.