California’s unfinished wildlife ‘bridge to nowhere’ tops $100M https://

[excalibur]

Another Newsom black hole.

Does no one follow the money?

In 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (WAWC), a project featuring an overpass for animals atop ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California.

At the ceremony, Newsom boasted that the state had committed $54 million. He promised to “complete the job within another $10 million,” before seeming to hedge on whether that final sum would do the trick.

Officials projected a 2025 completion date for the overpass, and estimated that the entire project — which includes the bridge and other ancillary developments — would cost $92 million, some of it coming from private philanthropists.

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... The project’s total price tag now reaches about $114 million, reportedly including some $77 million in state funds. Newsom’s office pointed us to a press release in response to our request for comment.

Why has a project primarily consisting of a bridge for animals cost over $100 million? One reason is that Newsom and WAWC’s philanthropic supporters apparently don’t mind it becoming a patronage program. ...

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California’s unfinished wildlife ‘bridge to nowhere’ tops $100M

What was supposed to be the world’s largest wildlife crossing has become a jobs program for environmentalists, with taxpayers on the hook.

nypost.com

 

[toobfreak]

... The project’s total price tag now reaches about $114 million, reportedly including some $77 million in state funds.

Gee, you can buy an awful lot of wildlife for 114 million dollars.

They'll have 300 million in this thing before finished.

I like the idea, it has its good intentions, but this is ridiculous. Worse, I'd laugh if completed, wildlife were afraid to use it.

Now back to trying to save the dead marine smelt fishies.

 

[lg325]

Lack of knowledge of managment skills is always the culprit.
Organizing people,tools ,material and time to achive a goal on time and within budget must be combined with a strong knowledge of the task to be completed.

 

[1srelluc]

I know critters will use a tunnel under an Interstate but I'm not sure about them using a bridge over a 10-lane interstate.

In fact I can't ever remember seeing deer crossing a bridge....I know coyotes will.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

There's no other explanation for this but laundering taxpayer money to politicians and those connected to them.

 

[struth]

There's no other explanation for this but laundering taxpayer money to politicians and those connected to them.

Like those famous shovel ready jobs that Obama put xiden in charge of

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

 

[initforme]

Up here people just smack into deer at night. I have no pity for those folk. Dont want to hit a deer stay off the roads. Or drive better and be quicker than the deer.

 

[lg325]

I know critters will use a tunnel under an Interstate but I'm not sure about them using a bridge over a 10-lane interstate.

In fact I can't ever remember seeing deer crossing a bridge....I know coyotes will.

They would have to gradually slope both ends for a long distance before any animals will cross the bridge that way it will feel like a natural rise in the land and they will not be spooked. I agree about the deer. Even live stock will spook at a bridge.

 

[1srelluc]

They would have to gradually slope both ends for a long distance before any animals will cross the bridge that way it will feel like a natural rise in the land and they will not be spooked. I agree about the deer. Even live stock will spook at a bridge.

When they put I-66 through a few large farms (with big money behind them) said they would not fight it if they put tunnels under the road so their livestock could get from one pasture to the other.

I guess it was already established that cattle were not afraid of using the tunnels.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

Democrats run these scams everywhere they control.

Fake services, fake projects, fake voters.

Democrats = traitors

 

[excalibur]