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Re: Bridges (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:26:39 GMT
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Rob Doucette <LUGNET@DOUCETTENET.nospamCOM>
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:G153tw.FLp@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
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> > A really cool bridge (in a number of ways) is the Confederation Bridge • that
> > links P.E.I. to the rest of Canada. I learned about it from a case study • of
> > good engineering, and it's also a strong case for good economics and
> > feasability of privatization.
>
> Ersatz privatization I would have to say... the government is giving an
> operating subsidy to the tune of 40M CDN a year it seemed like. That • doesn't
> count as true privatization. With Auto tolls at something like 25 CDN a
> crossing, this looks like a bridge that doesn't make economic sense, at • least
> not superficially.
And it really ticked off many of the P.E.I. inhabitants ...
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-Rob.
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