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Nothing says “government” like spending $7.6M to redo a road for 1 city block.
The work will be done by a private company, not city workers using city-owned equipment. Pretty sure the private company looked at the job and gave a market-based bid for it which of course included X-amount of profit. So your gripe seems irrational.
Bro I also hate it when the government fixes things! What am I paying taxes for?? I prefer it go straight into the pockets of billionaires. That’s why I vote Republican
The cost is actually 2.6 million for a block. The 10.2 million is the total amount of East and West Market Street reconstruction.
This is a, pre-COVID, very busy part of downtown with a lot going on. There’s brick on a good chunk of the street and all sorts of complications doing work in a downtown area that aren’t present in a rural or even sprawking suburban area.
When some of our suburbs spend 600,000 for roundabout art, I don’t see how 10 million to reconstruct a street that is brick in parts is some unreasonable cost.
If this was just a re-paving project, your gripe might have some merit. But if you looked at the work being done on Delaware Street, you might be a little understanding. They are blowing up the street all the way down to dirt. They are removing 75 years worth of unstable and crumbling paving material, along with installing significant drainage improvements. And again, this was a competitive bid, so I am sure they are getting what they asked for.
Nothing says I don’t understand how public works projects are out out to bid and I just reflexively spout nonsense I heard a few times on the Rush Limbaugh show like your comment.
The work is being done by private contractors and subject to a competitive public bidding process, and it involves replacing all the infrastructure going down several layers, some of which is a 100+ years old. It is not a simple repaving project.
But, please list your credentials in civil engineering and public infrastructure contracting and the specific analysts you have done on this project to support your comment….