Posted on 11/10/2014 2:22:53 PM PST by jazusamo
Video at link.
Now that a crucial section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been replaced by a new $6.4 billion span, nobody needs it anymore -- nobody except about 800 birds who call the decrepit, 78-year-old segment home.
The double-breasted cormorants - protected, though not endangered - have nested along the bridge for decades, and have so far shown no interest in relocating to the shiny new section that replaced the eastern section of the famed bridge. Officials have tried pricey decoys, bird recordings and even specially-made nests installed underneath the new span to lure them roughly 100 feet next door. The effort to demolish the old section, damaged 25 years ago in the massive Loma Prieta earthquake, is being held up by the birds' unwillingness to move, and critics, who say the delays could cost taxpayers $33 million, are crying fowl.
"They're spending $33 million to get rid of these 800 birds - that comes out to about $40,000 a bird- that's more money than most people in the United States make in a given year!" said Brian Sussman, a conservative radio talk show host in San Francisco.
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These birds are undesirables anyway!! They are shot if they come around private fish ponds. They eat a large number of the small fish every day.
So why in the world do they WANT 800 flippin nasty birds to move to the new bridge??
Blast the old bridge and if were lucky most will go down with it. sheesh.
They have successfully invaded the great lakes region and are multiplying........
“Crony socialism disguised as environmentalism, plain and simple.”
And also union favoritism. I always thought ( during my infrequent visits) that Massachusetts use of their Highway Patrolmen (and local cops) to sit on night construction projects all night in their Crown Vics with the engines and lights going ( but with the cop probably inside asleep) was a travesty. But guess what, California is now doing the same thing. Also whenever they do a highway project, they string a three foot high orange “snow fence” all along the right of way on both side ( even though just beyond, there is a standard six foot chain link fence) go figure! Actually, it isn’t hard to figure, they are simply pi$$ing away our money to the unions. But I am glad that California isn’t alone.
“Birds are not stupid like Democrats. They will move to a new place, not sit and wait for someone to give them one.....................”
You are so correct. The birds will move. The Democrats, the Liberals are projecting themselves, projecting their own stupidity on the cormorants.
Libs never cease to amaze me.
Listen to a Liberal, and you hear all about them even though they aren’t saying anything about themselves. It’s called projection.
The new span is rusting all on its own even without the birds.
Those too
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