• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social
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      The canal was there before the hotel, so that’s probably a question for whoever built a hotel in a place that doesn’t make any sense.

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      Holy Shit, making it from the nearest hotel across the canal turns a 1-mile walk into a 6-mile hike =U

      That has to be deliberate, there’s no other excuse for it.

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        Deliberate in the sense that someone built a hotel on land that was cheap for reason?

        Do you think that the city should engage a billion dollar civil engineering project to build a pedestrian bridge over a navigable canal so that it can serve whoever was dumb enough to build a hotel here?

        To be clear, there are like a hundred hotels that you CAN walk to this stadium from, just not this one.

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          Do you think that the city should engage a – civil engineering project to build a pedestrian bridge over a navigable canal?

          Uhmm? Yes? Have you somehow missed that there’s a stadium on the other side of the canal? There are a lot of things in the southwest corner of the map, not just one hotel. I do not believe there’s any other country on this planet where this is even a question. That bridge would absolutely get built. Building the stadium cost a big sum of money. A simple pedestrian bridge costs something like 50 000 $, maybe 200 000 $ if you want a fancy one. How would it not be possible for the stadium to pay that? It’s an increase of about one percent to the project’s expenses.

          And if they somehow forgot to include the necessary traffic connections in requirements for giving the permission to build the stadium, then I can assure you that the state is able to pay for a hundred grand for simple infrastructure.

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          A billion dollars for a pedestrian bridge? That thing had better be made of gold, then.

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            found some figures about cost of bridge building and apparently if one were to construct a completely new pedestrian overpass/bridge over that canal would be on the ballpark of about 2-10 million dollars

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              That sounds a lot more reasonable. And that’s a standalone bridge. If you want to be stingy, you could also just have a walkway on the side of the highway bridge. Make sure you’ve got a solid wall between the cars ajd pedestrians, of course.

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          How much extra do you think it would have cost to add an 6’ walkway to the bridge when it was built, merely as a future-proofing mechanism? When your first thought is, “No one would ever want to walk from one side to the other instead of using some kind of transportation,” these are the kind of results you get.