This is a fine example showing how the crooks do it under cover of law.
Posted on 05/28/2017 8:13:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In the end, the announcement was too good to be true. L.A. was going to get a “generous gift” — a bridge across the Los Angeles River, constructed with private money.
Six years later, city leaders are ready to build the project. But it’s definitely not free. Instead, the council voted Friday to move forward with a $16.1-million “cable-stayed” steel bridge connecting Griffith Park and Atwater Village, with taxpayers shouldering about three-fourths of the cost.
The cost of the roughly 325-foot span has gone up repeatedly in the intervening years, despite nearly $3.9 million in construction funding donated by a local businessman.
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Morton La Kretz, the philanthropist who donated $4.75 million for the project’s research, design and construction, said in a statement to The Times that the bridge will be “an asset to our city, a way to connect communities, and a symbol of river revitalization.”
Still, one city lawmaker expressed mixed feelings in recent weeks about building such an expensive project.
Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, who represents the Atwater side of the bridge, said the project began as a way of trying to help the area’s horse riders cross the river safely. The end product, he said, turned out to be somewhat more opulent than many in the neighborhood expected.
“So here we are, at this 11th hour, with a $16.12-million bridge that the community didn’t really ask for,” O’Farrell said at a hearing on the project this month.
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A bridge too far.
Cal Exit cannot happen soon enough.
And hopefully the big one will wait patiently until post exit.
What a festering pile of slimy idiots there.
Those of us, who have paid all types of CalifornicatorUS taxes and federal taxes for decades.
Know there is never anything free from local, state or federal government.
We are or will be those paying often with zero benefit.
How much would an improved horse trail have cost?
Nevermind. The dude that donated the money had property there which has probably gone up in value more than that which he donated.
Thank goodness there is no slime comes out of a place like Utah...........Oh, wait! Glass houses and all that.
Lots of slime here...just not as much.
There’s no free lunch and no free bridge.
So the “donated bridge” turns out to be funded less than 1/3 by the original donor, and most of the balance has to be made up by govt, i.e., TAXPAYER money.
Libtards lie in just about every way possible.
California = 39+ million people, 163,696 square, 2.5 Trillion GDP
When comparing, I wouldn't expect the same gross amount of slime in Utah, but I bet their neck and neck percentage wise.
No cars on this bridge.
How convenient for the bums that line the LA River.
GGB came in 1.2 million under budget.
Why are so many anxious (on our side) to let California go? It is an absolute impossibility and the Federal Government would certainly never let it happen. Furthermore, the state is much more conservative than people know. I say break it up but letting it leave the union puts our Republic in peril. Just as the Federal Government is out of control, states can be just as insane. I remember it took one state and one shot to start a Civil War. California is crazy but they are parasite and leach of the Federal Government while also the state of some of our most important West Coast military bases.
The Big Breakup of this country is coming. It will end up being Balkanized into natural sections. Health Care and Debt costs are going to kill us.
Because the right is almost as badly infested with knee-jerk, emotional, non-thinkers, as is the left.
Why build a bridge when the can have the Mexican’s teach then how to cross a freeway?.
This is a fine example showing how the crooks do it under cover of law.
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