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If you think private companies can do it cheaper, I have a Bay Bridge to sell you.
Club never bothered to answer my post observing that private companies generated the cost overruns on the Bay Bridge, which is too bad. Presumably he would say that the problem is that the state is the buyer, and lets the contractor get away with shit. To which I would point out that there was only one contractor with the capacity to make a bid, which probably explains why the market isn't quite working efficiently. No buyer, public or private, would have much leverage. And then there's the rise in the price of steel, which would have affected any project.
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