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Replacement of Minneapolis bridge that collapsed into Mississippi river.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Saint_Anthony_Falls_Bridge
The $234 million bridge was completed three months ahead of schedule and on budget.
Check out the Vasco de Gama bridge, longest in Europe, which was completed fairly recently for about 700 million euros.
-PJ
Minneapolis Hwy I-35 bridge collapse was an 8 lane bridge
Minneapolis has had a fairly consistently Democratic electorate led by politicians who were nonetheless persistently in fear of being thrown out of office, so therefore has had until recently a fairly functional state. For example, they got rid of zoning laws which allow the state to tell you how you are allowed to use your own land.
You get the ship which you can sell to the highest inside bidder for $25.00.
Well played, DG! Cheers!
They need more estimates and bids that’s ridiculous. Ridiculous.
If they want one dime of federal money then they should have to let Trump build it. Then it will done very quickly, Cheaply, and it will be done well.
Construction all my life and this is different than a cost over-run ballooning project like the Big Dig where contracts had massive extras and change orders and additional phases had to be added. This is an instance where a State Department of Transportation did a preliminary estimate (not a contract or bid from a final design) and now that the designers are getting the design finished and getting it ready to go out to bid they are warning that the spit—in-the-hand estimate of a year back was way off base.
INSURANCE COMPANIES CAN HANDLE THIS?????
Well I guess that low bidder thing doesn’t work in Maryland. Who knew? Do you think maybe the contracts were promised to firms that aren’t really bridge builders for maybe political purposes? Naw, they wouldn’t do that, would they?
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