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[Rob <becidawa AT hctc.com>]

At  12/17/2004 10:07 AM, you wrote:
> Come See Our Hideous Slab
> As the world swoons over France's soaring beauty of a bridge, S.F. gets 
> slapped
> with an eyesore
> By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
> Friday, December 17, 2004
>
>
> This is the current plan now grunted forth by Arnie. It is supposed to lop 
> $300
> million or so off the ridiculously high cost of the current new Bay Bridge 
> plan,
> costs that have exploded to upward of a staggering $5 billion for some 
> unknowable
> Caltrans reason and is now a good time to mention the real kicker about the
> Millau? How France's gorgeous and epic 1.6-mile span cost only $550 million?
> Shhh.
>
> And sure, the Bay Area has seismic issues and environmental issues and a
> difficult terrain that the Millau might not have faced, but is it really 
> 10 times
> more difficult and expensive? Is it really so utterly impossible, given the
> current social climate, to obtain designs at once visionary and 
> affordable? Maybe
> you already know the answer to that one, too.

The other day I was talking with an engineer for the state an he was 
talking about a freeway interchange they were working on. It seems the 
environmental issues raise the cost of a roadway on the order of 10 times...



Rob

becidawa AT hctc.com
Now in western Washington, USA