The Golden Gate Bridge cost half a billion in 2016 dollars, but is basically a redundant connection to an underpopulated area. Would transit twitter consider it a boondoggle if built today?pic.twitter.com/VPsY9U92hn
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1. If you were going to spend money on infrastructure in the Bay Area in the 1930s, surely you would build a bridge to Oakland, which they did! Two bridge = redundant. 2. A quarter of a million today, maybe, but probably about 10 in the 1930s.
Growth in Marin County was pretty rapid until it was stopped in the 1960s
In the 60s there was a plan to house 30,000 folks in 50 apartment towers plus build a bunch of single family homes. http://www.marintrails.com/hm/3hm-marincello4.jpg …
The folks who killed the project then went on to found the Trust for Public Land, Amerca's premier anti-development group.
1. There was good (and profitable) ferry service before the bridge opened, and tolerable ferry service even today. And ferries take you all the way to downtown SF rather than having to fight traffic from the Presidio. 2. Marin had under 50k people when the bridge was built.
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