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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
The entire coquihala was built In 20 months. Over under how long it takes to repair a single digit percentage of it? Lol 4?
Is it just beucracy these days that slows things down or the govt. isn’t able to just throw money at certain things anymore
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What an ignorant statement...you think if a wall of your house collapsed you can just take the time it built to take the entire house, divide that by the area affected, and have a realistic timeline?
The entire Coquihalla may have been built in 20 months, but there was at least 4 times that of planning and pre-investigation work to do geotechnical investigations and remediation, environmental assessments, and whatever else.
Case in point, the Patullo replacement? They started work on that 4 years ago.
Bureaucracy in infrastructure projects appears in things like costs overrun because contractors know they can milk the government for OT and mileage, not because someone is playing candy crush on their phone while not approving drawings. And with the entire province sitting in front of their computers with their pitchforks by their side just looking to blame the government for "bureaucracy", you can bet your ass they're not twiddling their thumbs with this. Sure you can slap a road back together in a week, but it doesn't take an engineer to figure out who you're going to blame when the entire thing shifts a meter in a week because the public demanded they build a road without doing slope stabilizations.