Cuozzo in the New York Post writes this characteristically grumpy dispatch about a logistical issue at the new WTC site that has been already solved to the satisfaction of all involved parties. Quelle horreur! He demands an explanation.
Well, read a magazine sometime, moron. The engineering of the entire site is incredibly detailed… it’s a complex complex!
The problem is that neither the transportation hub nor the performing arts center are going to be finished on time - both of which have been wracked by financing issues and cost overruns. That fact is no secret at all. Because of those buildings’ eventual engineering/construction requirements, the tunnel to the primary 1 WTC loading docks (which threads through both foundations) will not be ready before the 1 WTC building itself is complete and ready to open.
But they solved the problem with a temporary dock- at a cost of tens of millions, says an extremely authoritative… anonymous source.
That ONE TOWER is expected to cost $3.8 billion to build. In order for this to increase the project’s budget by 2 percent, it would have to cost $80 million. The entire site should end up costing between $12-$16 billion to finish, which would make anything that costs $20-$30 million a rounding error.
That’s pretty much what I can’t stand about newspapers. They are almost always penny-wise and pound-foolish when it comes to talking about projects and infrastructure, repeating whatever nasty shit that anonymous politicians and government staff use to snipe at one another. And we’re supposed to buy into that. Meanwhile, they’re all too stupid to effectively figure out what’s going on in the financial world at any given moment, where people are REALLY putting the hurt on us. They cover the $1 million story and fuck up the $1 trillion story. They are the shittiest auditors. People with math skills that bad should be put in a group home.
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awpoops said:
A group home for people who are bad at math.
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