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Humber Bridge Revisited

A comparison between hope and reality for river bridging and its relevance for next-gen in and around a North-East Coastal City today.
According to http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-01-18b.43102.h and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Bridge the Humber Bridge actually cost around £100M on completion in 1981 and, through the magic of compound interest, this represents a debt of £300M+ today that will still [...]

Posted 11 July 2009 § Blogging ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

AVOIDING ANOTHER HUMBER BRIDGE BURDEN

An historical comparison between hope and reality for river bridging and its relevance for next-gen in and around a North-East Coastal City today.

According to http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-01-18b.43102.h and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Bridge the Humber Bridge actually cost around £100M on completion in 1981 and, through the magic of compound interest, this represents a debt of £300M+ today that will [...]

Posted 31 January 2009 § Blogging ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,