The US used to be able to build infrastructure like this but we can't have nice things anymore because of NIMBYs, environmentalists, labor unions, and every other whiny subgroup. In comparison to China spending $19 billion for 19 mile sof bridge/tunnel, the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge costs $6.4 billion for little over 2 miles. The Tappan Zee Bridge replacement has ballooned to at least $6 billion for less than a mile.
1 posted on
06/30/2016 1:45:11 PM PDT by
C19fan
To: C19fan
We can’t have nice things because the cost of our government and everything they do is simply outrageous.
2 posted on
06/30/2016 1:47:22 PM PDT by
PGR88
To: C19fan; All
So, now the communists on the mainland can repress the Hong Kong-ese even more thoroughly, and without even getting wet!
3 posted on
06/30/2016 1:49:56 PM PDT by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: C19fan
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is 23.83 miles long...
4 posted on
06/30/2016 1:50:49 PM PDT by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: C19fan
Ki do not think I’d drive across that without a life jacket and a dingy.
5 posted on
06/30/2016 1:51:18 PM PDT by
Paladin2
(auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
To: C19fan
Tappen Zee. Are you kidding? Anything done in NYC constructionwise is a joke.
Remember 30 years ago joking on the express bus that they will still be working on BQE when I retire.
Getting close.
6 posted on
06/30/2016 1:54:24 PM PDT by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: C19fan
Last record our government spends $22b to stop global warming support AGW scientific collusion per year.
7 posted on
06/30/2016 1:54:46 PM PDT by
Ketill Frostbeard
("Socialism is the Sword of Islam, and Islam is Satan clothed in flesh.")
To: C19fan
Easy to do when schmuck Americans are financing it.
To: C19fan
Are tickets on sale for another bizarre, demonic, opening ceremony for this bridge?
16 posted on
06/30/2016 2:32:01 PM PDT by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
To: C19fan
It’s not Zhuhau, it’s Zhuhai...:)
That bridge has sprung up FAST! I travel to the Zhuhai area every 8-10 weeks, and over the last few years this thing has kicked butt. It’ll be open for business in another 3-4 months supposedly.
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