"...cost $793 per meter in 2019 dollars.".
IMO, extrapolations like this are not very useful unless it also means it can actually be executed at that cost in 2019.
Is that really the case here?
IMO, extrapolations like this are not very useful unless it also means it can actually be executed at that cost in 2019.
Is that really the case here?
While the costs are higher- so are the benefits
I traveled it before was paved, and it was, and is, a true engineering marvel.
I realize San Francisco is a microcosm, but in my experience the focus has been on extracting money via corruption and building the bare minimum you can without getting sued.
You could argue the money is going towards greater safety for workers, but I see no plausible argument that it's resulting in higher quality work.
On a 8 hour work day on federal minimum wage that's only 52 workers being able to work on the entire project ignoring all machine and material costs.
Too right it couldn't be done today. Or there were a lot of costs accumulated by the project that were not assigned to the project.
Still the reported cost of the road at the tune excludes machinery and labour costs, it was purely material costs.