(For City of Victoria residents only, please) How should Victoria City Council solve the Johnson Street Bridge problem?

Build a new bridge that could withstand a magnitude 8.5 earthquake (according to the City, minimum cost is $77 million)
4%
Fix the existing bridge so that it can withstand a magnitude 8.5 earthquake (according to the City, minimum cost is $80 million)
0%
First fix the bridge's electrical and mechanical problems. Then carefully evaluate the seismic risk before doing anything else.
96%
Total votes: 24

Bridge Options

Submitted by clark_victoria on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 01:08.

In any proposition there is a simple rule of diminishing returns.  If you put incremental millions towards improving survivability of the existing bridge at some point additional millions have a reduced improvement result.  A sound "business person" invests to that point.  An arbitrary target of 8.5 on the richter scale (a level exceeded only once in recorded BC history) almost ensures we have invested far beyond that point.  If my investor did that to me I'd fire them!!!!!!!