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In reply to the discussion: Four toll lanes down the middle of a free-to-drive interstate highway ? wtf is this.... [View all]solarhydrocan
(551 posts)14. Perhaps China will be granted the contract
State officials are counting on a private company four are in the running to cover nearly half the cost of the project, with tolls being used to repay the investment over 30 or more years. The state is willing to put up close to $1 billion as its contribution.
They now build our bridges, subways, schools and shoes.
New San Francisco bridge built in China to be shipped to US-- 28 Jun 2011

Next month, four enormous steel skeletons, the last of the 12 segments of the bridge, will be shipped 6,500 miles from Shanghai to San Francisco before being assembled on site....with likes of China State Construction Engineering Group (CSCEC) overtaking established American giants like Bechtel.
CSCEC has already built seven schools in the US, apartment blocks in Washington DC and New York and is in the middle of building a 4,000-room casino in Atlantic City. In New York, it has won contracts to renovate the subway system, build a new metro platform near Yankee stadium, and refurbish the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem river. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8602786/New-San-Francisco-bridge-built-in-China-to-be-shipped-to-US.html

Next month, four enormous steel skeletons, the last of the 12 segments of the bridge, will be shipped 6,500 miles from Shanghai to San Francisco before being assembled on site....with likes of China State Construction Engineering Group (CSCEC) overtaking established American giants like Bechtel.
CSCEC has already built seven schools in the US, apartment blocks in Washington DC and New York and is in the middle of building a 4,000-room casino in Atlantic City. In New York, it has won contracts to renovate the subway system, build a new metro platform near Yankee stadium, and refurbish the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem river. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8602786/New-San-Francisco-bridge-built-in-China-to-be-shipped-to-US.html
Thanks to the current crop of wall street suckups the US cannot build its own bridges, schools or even shoes.
Hopefully one day the average citizen will wake up and realize the depth of the sellout. Then they can beg for more rations.
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Four toll lanes down the middle of a free-to-drive interstate highway ? wtf is this.... [View all]
steve2470
Jan 2014
OP
KR. We paid for the highways when they were built, we paid for maintenance, & now we will pay
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#2
I'm assuming the tolls elleng refers to go to the state and/or federal governments ?
steve2470
Jan 2014
#17
You're paying much more for a lot of things, all in the name of no income tax
groundloop
Jan 2014
#34
So when the poor peoples lanes are jammed with traffic, you will be able to watch the rich
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#19
It's much like the Verizon model against net neutrality. If you aren't prepared to pay to play you
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2014
#28
I used to spend $7K a year vacationing in FL. Not anymore. It's going to safe states.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2014
#30