{"id":1600,"date":"2014-12-12T08:23:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2014-12-12T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:24:02","slug":"mark-my-words-five-billion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1600","title":{"rendered":"Mark My Words: Five Billion Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s long been <a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1310\">my estimate<\/a> (even before I made that linked post) of how much the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement boondoggle is going to end up costing. And it&#8217;s an open question as to whether or not there will be a usable tunnel after pouring all that money down that rat hole.<\/p>\n<p>The latest in the saga of foibles is that the access tunnel is that the access pit they are digging to repair the damaged tunnel boring machine is<a href=\"http:\/\/kuow.org\/post\/new-map-shows-widespread-sinking-near-bertha-rescue-pit\"> causing a whole neighborhood to start subsidng. <\/a>That&#8217;s going to be a healthy chunk of change just to compensate all the affected property owners right there.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, this is a unique and never-before-attempted project. Nobody has ever used a tunnel boring machine this large. Nobody has ever dug a tunnel this deeply through saturated soil. So nobody really knows how difficult it actually will be.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who said it would cost $1 billion, tops, was either a liar or a rank idiot. Or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s long been my estimate (even before I made that linked post) of how much the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement boondoggle is going to end up costing. And it&#8217;s an open question as to whether or not there will be a usable tunnel after pouring all that money down that rat hole. The latest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}