China builts world's longest bridge

[newguy05]

This is how you do infrastructure projects.

Meanwhile in the US, citing budget concerns a much needed new tunnel linking NJ to manhattan was canceled AFTER wasting $700 MILLION already.

Add insult to injury, it took the chinese FOUR years from start to finish to build the 27mile bridge, it took usa FIVE years and $700 million to come up with a fucking PLAN to build a <2 miles tunnel, only to get canceled before construction even starts.

I really want to be hopeful, but we are not just falling behind, we are getting left in the dust like a third world country by china...


Qindao Haiwan Bridge:

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[nazzdack]

Quote from newguy05:
----infrastructure projects.
----tunnel linking NJ to manhattan....

Neat thang. Gargantuan-size construction projects tend to occur at long-term peaks in the market. :eek:

 

[antitrust]

time for the treasury to issue greenbacks like Lincoln

 

[adadadog]

It may have more ROI to bridge the Bering Sea.

 

[nazzdack]

Quote from adadadog:
----more ROI....
----bridge the Bering Sea.

or the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean.

 

[adadadog]

Quote from nazzdack:

or the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean.

ROI? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing

 

[T_Geithner]

Quote from nazzdack:

Neat thang. Gargantuan-size construction projects tend to occur at long-term peaks in the market. :eek:

For all of you wishing that China's economy collapse soon, you are only wishing. Rest assured that the US's economy will collapse sooner and at a faster rate.

 

[athlonmank8]

Quote from T_Geithner:

For all of you wishing that China's economy collapse soon, you are only wishing. Rest assured that the US's economy will collapse sooner and at a faster rate.

hey we have a celebrity on ET! You're on par for his mental capacity too it seems.

 

[nazzdack]

Quote from T_Geithner:
....the US's economy will collapse sooner and at a faster rate.

You're going for the "relative value" trade?

 

[FortuneTeller]

That is one ugly looking bridge.