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.
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