{"id":5596,"date":"2009-11-05T09:36:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T14:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5596"},"modified":"2009-11-05T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T14:36:17","slug":"some_of_your_friends_are_probably_already_this_fucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/some_of_your_friends_are_probably_already_this_fucked.html","title":{"rendered":"Some Of Your Friends Are Probably Already This Fucked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/32\/45\/32_45_wy_koski.html\">It will cost $1 billion to replace the Kosciuszko Bridge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The pricetag for a state plan to replace the crumbling Kosciuszko Bridge by 2017 has ballooned to more than a billion bucks to accommodate the eight-year inflation expected during the long-awaited and long-needed replacement.<\/p>\n<p>For that price, we might get something truly stunning &#8212; a concrete cable-stayed straight out of a science fiction movie (or the downtowns of many other cities). In layman&#8217;s terms, the futuristic bridge resembles two space-turkey wishbones standing upright with diagonal connection cables.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Kosciuszko Bridge Stakeholders Advisory Council &#8212; a Department of Transportation-appointed panel of local activists &#8212; chose three final designs for the new 1.1-mile span.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the front-runner [. . .] were a simple box girder design and a crescent arch similar to the Bayonne Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>They would all cost a lot, but Adam Levine, spokesman of the state Department of Transportation, said the cost was expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a bridge that is a mile long in New York City, $1 billion is the going rate,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will cost $1 billion to replace the Kosciuszko Bridge: The pricetag for a state plan to replace the crumbling Kosciuszko Bridge by 2017 has ballooned to more than a billion bucks to accommodate the eight-year inflation expected during the long-awaited and long-needed replacement. For that price, we might get something truly stunning &#8212; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596","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=5596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5597,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions\/5597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}