But don't fret just yet! Calatrava's previous contract was mostly paid for his earier work. The Dallas Morning News reported that the city voted to accept $5,000,000 in anonymous donations in addition to the $2,100,000 funds left unpaid to Calatrava combined with a $3,500,000 in city bond money– giving Calatrava a total of $10,700,000 for a new contract to build a bike and pedestrian component to a new redesign of the bridge, the I-30 Margaret McDermott Bridge.

Reported by the Dallas Observer, Hunt "suggested removing the signature features and instead building a 'plain vanilla' bridge, thereby lowering the cost to $222 million, and then applying the $92 million toward that amount, reducing TxDOT's funding commitment to around $130 million."

Finally, the cost of the original Calatrava design is reported to have been originally as $500,000,000 but reduced down to $314,000,000– Texas' congressional representatives had secured $92,000,000 leaving a bill of approximately $222,000,000 for TxDOT to pay.

The best reasoning given? Vonciel Jones Hill quoted as saying, "this is Dallas. This is how we do things. We do it in a big way."

For a refresher, Santiago Calatrava, 59, has been in Dallas before. This is, was or might be the Valencian's second bridge in Dallas' Trinity Bridge project– his first bridge, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, is expected to be open very soon.