With Frick and her book [Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge] as guide, CityLab tracked bridge expenses over time to get some sense of how the project that Herbert Hoover once called “the greatest bridge yet constructed in the world” became yet another example of a major public works project in which the cost ended outrageously higher than it began—and some ideas for what to do about it. — CityLab
Zaha Hadid isn't the only one who has suffered from hugely inflated construction estimates: back in 1995, Caltrans estimated that it would only cost $250 million to retrofit the earthquake-damaged Bay Bridge. Eleven years and several construction estimates later, that figure had swollen to $6.5 billion, and some officials feel that it may rise as high as $13 billion after all the interest and financing costs are tallied up.
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Yup, that's our bridge(Jerry Brown Bridge) - now we need to design yet a new bridge to replace this white elephant before it falls into the bay - that and a new X-bay Bart tube - maybe we should set it up on kickstarter
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