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Started by Tonytone, May 02, 2017, 12:17:51 AM

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Quote from: Tonytone on May 18, 2017, 01:50:13 PMNet jobs will be 0? How? Now yes we can use that money on other infrastructure. But lets keep it real some of the infrastructure doesnt even deserve a rebuild or the money to be wasted because of so many problems, heres an example, would you rather keep putting money in a old 98 Acura Tl or buy a brand new 2015 nissan or honda, which will last probably 50 more years then the acura when it came out. iPhone
Let's use the old adage from Click & Clack on Car Talk.  It almost NEVER pays to trade in a car that you're putting a hundred dollars into a month for a new car that you automatically will be paying hundreds a month to finance.  It may make you feel good, but your wallet is not making out.  This adage works reasonably well for infrastructure that can be maintained.  At some point it does become easier/cheaper to potentially replace and rebuild, but not for quite a while.
Are you going to abandon I-95 to focus on the $1B bridge?  Is I-95 not going to need to be rebuilt now that you have a shiny bridge that takes a bit of traffic off it?  There are simply better ways to promote economic activity with a higher return than this bridge.
Simply adding new infrastructure for the sake of it is a horrible practice to get into.  Everything costs money to maintain, especially bridges in the middle of a tidal bay subject to winter weather.

Quote from: Tonytone on May 18, 2017, 01:50:13 PM
The tolls will pay for the bridge itself iPhone
Oh come on...  If that were true, don't you think companies would be lining up to build it?  We're not talking a new bridge to mid-town Manhattan here..



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