Posted on 02/23/2020 10:32:40 AM PST by grundle
Politicians love infrastructure, but many local government projects seem awfully wasteful. We’ve all seen the questionable spending—the half dozen union guys standing around while one digs, the needless reconstruction of sidewalks, the dangerous bike‐lane schemes on city streets, the empty city buses clogging traffic, and those digital announcement signs on highways with no useful information.
Local governments are flush with cash, and they waste it. Where I live in Virginia, a local government spent $1 million on one bus stop that should have cost $20,000.
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More theft by government.
JoMa
This is from Yahoo? I’d think they’d love the ‘redistribution’ of wealth all this infrastructure spending entails.
A million bucks and they forgot the sign:
“Drugs for sale here!”
Lol!
The bus stop is not new(?) completed in 2013(?)
https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/update-arlingtons-1-million-bus-stop
Them Democrat Pockets ain’t gonna line themselves!
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Waste? this is outright graft and corruption on display here. It’s a feature, not a bug. Let us just presume that some influential politicians are well supported in their candidacy for re-election.
Crony Socialism.
It looks like it only sleeps two. That looks pretty steep price for only two bums per night. I wonder if it has streaming TV?
We have marble bathrooms in our public libraries.......
Yep, imagine what it would have cost today. 2 maybe 3 million. I loved the part where riders complain that the slanted glass roof doesn’t even protect them from rain or snow. 8>)
um... why should it of even cost $20,000.
A sign could be put up for a couple of hundred bucks tops!
Looks like the article was originally posted at Cato, reposted at The National Interest blog, then reposted at Yahoo.
I spent 17 years in miscellaneous metal fabrication including stainless steel like was used in this project. Just looking at the photo and no technical drawings/specifications, it’s easy to see a base cost of $350K just to fabricate the shelter. Add on the cost to develop the site, labor to install the shelter, etc. and I can see the $1mil price tag.
I’m more blown away by the 2 million dollar bike racks referenced in the article.
The nearest high end suburb had a commuter bus stop with a bench that had to be removed because of homeless people sleeping on it.
Since there are no homeless people for miles, the only way they could get to it would be take the bus!
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