My..!How things have gone up in price!!

My..!How things have gone up in price, But that's no suprise!!.

It is not as if we have options. Why would anyone be surprised the price is up? All building cost and labor are going up and will not stop for a while. However, we still need a bridge now... They are building bridges everywhere else in this province and the lower mainland gets what they need. Prince George has always beat things to death until nothing finally gets done. Just do it!

We dont need a bridge. What we need is to move the South Scale out of town and kill off the traffic snarl at the traffic light at the scale. Once this scale is gone then traffic will run more smoothly through that area. A few other positive changes in the same area and **Walla** no problem.

People who consistanly solve problems by spending taxpayers money, without looking a viable alternatives are basically idea challenged.

Yes I agree, we do need to move the scales out of town! I Work just behind the place and it's becoming more and more congested with all these big rigs coming and going around there!.

We do need the bridge. One accident on the bridge and traffic is stopped in both directions until the mess is cleared up. The last time it took hours.

Do not stand in the way of progress! If we are so idea challenged as to turn down much needed improvements here in PG other cities will gladly take the money to improve their roads and bridges.

The money is in the budget - turn it down and it will simply be spent elsewhere.

The present bridge is due for major maintenance work, so let's get on with the building of the new one.

The budget is $32.5 million.
The lowest bid is $47,964,290.00. PG will be on the hook for the difference and there is still another bridge to build.

Are they willing to dish out the money for that too!.But Hey! the money is in the budget

"PG will be on the hook for the difference..."

No.

Provincial responsibilty.....looks like they will have to either bale or buy our votes.

Diplomat. You can find other areas around the City that would snarl trafic if there was an accident, and traffic would be backed up in both directions, so twinning the bridge may solve the problem in that area but not in others. You cant spent 45 Million on a bridge to try and avoid a possible accident that could slow traffic. I suspect if you knew the number of accidents on this bridge in the last 15 years you would not be in such a hurry to spend the money.

I agree we should not let the money be spent in other areas of the Country and therefore suggest that if it is not going to build a bridge, then it can be spent on 97 South or Highway 16 West. There have been major accidents, and numerous people killed on both these Highways, and that is where we should be spending money. Not on a bridge that we really dont need. I am not aware of any deaths caused by this bridge. Are you???

Close the damn scales....redeck the 1 laner bridge at the end of 1st ave.
Fix the potholes.

And still have money left over from the 32.5 million.

Peter Kiewit & Sons Limited, is the company that started and built level 3 Communications (LVLT) back in the 1990's. They took a huge risk and the brothers went big time building America's largest fiber optic network. When they got in trouble the Oracal of Omaha (2nd richest man in the world) a few floors up bailed them out.

I for one would think it is a good idea to pay the lowest bidder to come to town and see what kind of business potential we have first hand. What better way to promote this town to the combination of big money and one of the worlds largest and most inovative construction companies.

It appears that who is the richet individual in the world at any given time is changing more often today than ever before since some of the ones at the top are getting older and have decided that the Gates foundation has a good thing going and are divesting themseleves of significant portion of their wealth into that foundation and are not waiting till their death to do so.

Here is Ingvar Kamprad
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-10108114-details/Ikea+chief+is+the+world%27s+richest+man/article.do;jsessionid=Jmt9FcdpyGKRz12vK22yTvlDvfBQpvjvmrjBJTyZv7DJQxQ86wL1!1938015393

This is old info - 2004
http://in.news.yahoo.com/040404/137/2cdva.html

Here's info from a bulletin board on Buffet. May not be right, but I believe I heard about this from a news report recently.
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