The Champlain bridge is the poster child for all that is wrong when it comes to government estimates about costs. The bridge is an accident waiting to happen. So much so, it's inspected twice a day in some parts. It's a massive bridge with the highest traffic in the country. The cost of repairs was estimated at $100 million. Last I read, it ballooned to $500 million.
At what point does someone in the room say, "blow the sucker up and start new!" I mean, the Germans blew some of the most beautiful bridges in Florence in WWII much to the loss of Western culture so who's gonna miss the Champlain bridge? Amiright?
I wonder why the cost would be five times the original estimate?
Don't answer.
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The Superhospital, is a super mess as I've said from day negative one even before the shovel was pierced into the cold, hard Quebec ground.
But all heroes need a villain, right?
Now a new problem has arisen. Parking. Never mind for patients, there's not enough spots for the 6000 employees expected to work at the hospital.
No one along the way sat in the boardroom and put up their hands and asked about this?
Government urban planning at its finest.
You will not get me in there or around the Vendome vicinity under any circumstances. Why? To watch more inefficiencies develop before my eyes? To have a nurse tell me they're short-staffed so I need to pipe down and enjoy all the new, super nice shiny ponies?
Scrooo-dat.
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