A billion dollars for a pedestrian bridge? That thing had better be made of gold, then.
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UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 day agoDeliberate in the sense that someone built a hotel on land that was cheap for reason?
mcv@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
found some figures about cost of bridge building and apparently if one were to construct a completely new pedestrian overpass/bridge over that canal would be on the ballpark of about 2-10 million dollars
mcv@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That sounds a lot more reasonable. And that’s a standalone bridge. If you want to be stingy, you could also just have a walkway on the side of the highway bridge. Make sure you’ve got a solid wall between the cars ajd pedestrians, of course.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 day ago
How much extra do you think it would have cost to add an 6’ walkway to the bridge when it was built, merely as a future-proofing mechanism? When your first thought is, “No one would ever want to walk from one side to the other instead of using some kind of transportation,” these are the kind of results you get.