{"id":2180,"date":"2007-03-07T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T18:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/post_is_shocked_simply_shocked_--_maybe_even_outraged_--_by_planning_costs_literally_soaring_into_the_millions.html"},"modified":"2007-03-07T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T18:43:10","slug":"post_is_shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/post_is_shocked.html","title":{"rendered":"Post Is Shocked, Simply Shocked &#8212; Maybe Even Outraged &#8212; By Planning Costs Literally Soaring Into The Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post notes that a full 14 and-a-half comfort stations* could have been built <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/03072007\/news\/regionalnews\/bklyn_park_a__16m_mirage_regionalnews_rich_calder.htm\">for what has already been spent on the as-yet-unbuilt Brooklyn Bridge Park<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Planners of the long-delayed Brooklyn Bridge Park project have spent more than $16 million in taxpayer money in the last five years &#8212; more than it cost to build the bridge in the 1880s.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the cash went to the project&#8217;s architect and consultants, records obtained by The Post reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, critics point out, the 85-acre park along the Brooklyn waterfront, which was supposed to break ground three years ago, has yet to be built.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It cost $15 million to build the Brooklyn Bridge, so [the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp.] has already spent more with little to show for it,&#8221; said Cobble Hill activist Roy Sloane.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/come_see_our_sh.html\">for example<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post notes that a full 14 and-a-half comfort stations* could have been built for what has already been spent on the as-yet-unbuilt Brooklyn Bridge Park: Planners of the long-delayed Brooklyn Bridge Park project have spent more than $16 million in taxpayer money in the last five years &#8212; more than it cost to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-grandstanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}