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Originally Posted by jammer139
no idea where your getting Billions of $ from. 
We're talking about spending $2.5 Million extra for fancy arches |
The arched schemes were favourable by AECOM who did the Environmental Report on numerous criteria. It's a no-brainer when you are a councilor voting on what 5 options to go with after reading that report and what you currently notice about the current bridge. Not that they have voted on what option yet. Will the pick the 13.2 million Tied Arch or the 11.3 million Through Arch. The other three ranged from 9.6-10.6. The Through Arch is the most preferred. It is 0.7 to 1.7 million more than the other options.
This is the motion council voted on:
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That the Victoria Bridge Municipal Class Environmental Study Report BE REFERRED to the Managing Director, Environmental & Engineering Services to report back at a future meeting of the Civic Works Committee with more cost effective alternatives for addressing cultural heritage concerns that would include an enhanced design for a concrete girder bridge which incorporates special treatments, public art and/or portions of the existing bridge, with the goal of achieving an overall Project cost savings of $1 million dollars or greater.
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This vote is also influenced by the public. If people want to complain but do nothing to contribute to government aside from vote every 4 years, you get what you get. A review of the Public Information Centre 2 - Comment Forms from 2017, the public did not want cheap "heritage" treatments. And that was not even the final input from the public. A standard 30 day public review period ended August 7th.
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Originally Posted by jammer139
on a two lane bridge reconstruction VS rebuilding it 4 lanes wide to accommodate the extra traffic that will be using it over the next 50-100 years. It is already 4 lanes immediately north of the bridge now if you haven't noticed. If you have to replace it at least make it better then it was before.
There are people who don't want to believe that change will happen. That everything will stay just like it is for the next 50+ years along Ridout St. That London will not change or progress or grow.
They are simply short sighted and have no vision.
Yeah maybe we will have personal teleportation devices and we won't need vehicles or roads anymore too.  |
Or in 50-100year when the traffic volumes get up to 20k, it will be time to replace the bridge. The current drawings have the bridge being wide enough for it to be retrofitted with 4 lanes. Yeah, it will lose bike lanes, and the sidewalks will be narrower. But currently, the lanes are 3.5 m wide. Lanes this wide with lower speeds is conducive to more accidents. 3.5 m is for speeds fro 80km/h or more.
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