Infrastructure Lessons from Venice

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(04-05-2017, 07:15 PM)Benton Wrote: I think fred's point with the $25 is that's what it would cost for general labor in modern times to repair a modern bridge. And that's not including heavy equipment operators who make a little more or steel guys who make double that, easily in some places.

I don't think it would go over well if the governmen t started using enlisted soldiers to keep cost down on projects.

Yes, but Freds point also becomes pointless when we're talking about building a bridge from scratch over a river that had never had a bridge built over it before, using BC technology in 10 days.... versus repairing 350ft of an already existing interstate on dry land while using heavy machinery like cranes and bulldozers, giant concrete mixers, steel welding, and fast setting concrete.

They're not comparable difficulty tasks. We're talking having to walk over to trees, cut them down with handsaws or axes, and then dragging them back to the bridge site.