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Originally Posted by Sigaven
Earliest it will open is 2025? Why so long down the road?
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First it has to finish the open houses and public outreach phase. After that the design itself will likely take around a 1-1.5 years to lock down. This includes time for AE bids/teams to form, design to be fully fleshed out, and fully engineered. With some overlap would be the construction itself which would probably be a year in itself, potentially more if including surrounding work.
That would put us optimistically around 2022 for a start date if everything went without a hitch, design teams and construction worked in partial overlap, and full productivity was achieved. A lot of the gray area will probably include the politics of it, which is required because the bridge itself is not yet funded. 2025 sounds about right for something like this if it's bundled in a bond vote.