Post by 101ABN on May 29, 2012 19:34:13 GMT -8
This past weekend marked the 75th anniversary of the completion of the Golden Gate bridge.
Could it be built today?
"Critics would call it a viewshed-wrecking, growth-inducing, auto-centric, environmentally disastrous, blatantly illegal, greedy, bad idea," said Marin County Supervisor Steve Kinsey, the newspaper reported. Companies would also be falling all over each other -- and political leaders -- to help out, he added.
"Disney would be lobbying Congress to let them build it within a theme park," he told the newspaper. "Tribes would be offering to finance it in return for just one casino at Fort Point. Every hip corporation would be making a pitch to do it in the shape of their logo."
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Could-Golden-Gate-Bridge-Be-Built-Today-Maybe-Not-155212425.html
Could it be built today?
"Critics would call it a viewshed-wrecking, growth-inducing, auto-centric, environmentally disastrous, blatantly illegal, greedy, bad idea," said Marin County Supervisor Steve Kinsey, the newspaper reported. Companies would also be falling all over each other -- and political leaders -- to help out, he added.
"Disney would be lobbying Congress to let them build it within a theme park," he told the newspaper. "Tribes would be offering to finance it in return for just one casino at Fort Point. Every hip corporation would be making a pitch to do it in the shape of their logo."
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Could-Golden-Gate-Bridge-Be-Built-Today-Maybe-Not-155212425.html
