Highway 401 Widening - Hespeler Road to Townline Road

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Highway 401 Widening - Hespeler Road to Townline Road

zanate Offline

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11-24-2014, 02:00 PM

(11-24-2014, 01:02 PM)BuildingScout Wrote:
(11-24-2014, 11:58 AM)zanate Wrote: There has been talk about a pedestrian bridge across, near Hespeler. With a cost that could be $2-3M, that's going to be hard to justify. So far I haven't heard of any potential outcome that I like.

Is this another case of "special" government pricing? All quotes I can find from other countries peg the cost of a pedestrian bridge at less than one tenth of that.

Can't comment on the assumptions behind that number. I can point out that the 401 pedestrian bridge out towards Homer Watson was apparently $1.7M but that this gentleman chronicled how the cost of the bridge grew with each plan revision and with the aesthetic goals.

A bridge across the 401 that would tie, say, the Cambridge SmartCentre to Holiday Inn Dr. here would need about a 90-100m span. Do you have examples from other countries where the price tag comes in a lot lower? It would be useful information.

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