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Originally Posted by kwajo
There is no way a new crossing would only cost $500 million, between engineering, environmental, land on both sides, road connections, tolls booths, not to mention the actual construction. I think you're looking at at least $2 billion by the time they actually get around to it. Just look at what other large bridges have cost recently in Canada, the Port Mann Bridge cost $820 million for the bridge alone (not including highway/road upgrades to link it), and the estimated cost of the George Massey Tunnel's replacement bridge is $3.5 billion. Early estimates for the third crossing [conceived almost ten years ago] were over $1.1 billion and construction costs have gone up a lot since then.
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We were referring to a replacement to the MacKay bridge where all of the roads already exist. You are thinking of a south end bridge where none of the infrastructure exists.
The Port Mann bridge is 10 lanes.
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