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A 'Ludicrously Ugly' Bridge Is Exhibit a That Britain Has Lost Its Mojo

https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/a-ludicrously-ugly-bridge-is-exhibit-a-that-britain-has-lost-its-mojo-7015a654
2•nextos•58m ago

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silverFork•16m ago
wow "a quarter of a billion dollars" for that.

My guess is that with modular precast forms, it would be something $500k max!

Somebody pocketed some big amount of cash, I would guess.

ben_w•6m ago
Not impossible, but they did have to deal with gas leaks and a WW2 grenade, and this is a rail bridge on an actively used line.

Still, there's an undeniable sense of "why is this more expensive to replace than it was to build in the first place?" with a lot of infrastructure in the modern world.

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