If that was where I live, the Council would build a foot bridge, then tear it down a week later to put in a road, then a week later they would rip up the road again to build a bigger bridge.
A road re-alignment near me required a mound to be built which apparently helps to drain the water during a one in a million year flood event. They had to get it surveyed and drawn up by an architect on a master plan. Then a contractor had to build the mound, then someone else come in to landscape it with those damned Lomandra reeds. Total cost was over one million dollars for what is effectively just a mound of dirt. The silly thing is the mound is on a hill, so there is really no chance of it ever being flooded in a million years. A local tried to tell them this, but he was dismissed as an ignorant fool.
The flammable tiles on some of the Government buildings in Brisbane are another case in point. Instead of just tearing them all off and replacing them with another style of cladding, they are treating each tile as a unique entity. The problem is there are literally thousands upon thousands of tiles! So they are meticulously measuring and cataloguing and photographing every single tile. Then they plan to reproduce each tile to fit in exactly the same places, and basically reinstall them a tile at a time. At this pace it will take them decades. The cost will be astronomical.
Last edited by vint_mow; 10/08/18 12:21 PM.
