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Matt
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PaulH
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Terrific story and very encouraging. Thanks for posting it.
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Peter Severin Carlsen
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The story of finishing the bridge quickly is interesting and serves the interest of many. What is probably not known is the quirky way the project was bid and in the rush to design, ignored working with some of the project users. Flat Iron was neither the low bid or the fastest timeline, and the some of the loosing bidders I believe went to court.
In the rush to finish they seemed to have brushed aside some of the interest of the City of Minneapolis's interests in future light rail train provisions and pedestrian connections...at least that is the way it seemed in the paper.
Many in design community would have rather waited a month and had Salvador Calatravi (sp?) lend us a hand. But our Lieutenant Governor as head of DOT was in a rush. So we have a functional bridge with 1960's modern salt and pepper shaker piers, a few wiggles and a lot of lanes. It is amazing they finished so quickly. But many here think in our haste we missed an opportunity for something better. But we're just designers.
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patrickm
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Peter Severin Carlsen wrote: | The story of finishing the bridge quickly is interesting and serves the interest of many. What is probably not known is the quirky way the project was bid and in the rush to design, ignored working with some of the project users. Flat Iron was neither the low bid or the fastest timeline, and the some of the loosing bidders I believe went to court.
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good points, Peter.
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Matt
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yeah, they viewed it as a "let's replace this bridge right away" project, not a, "hey how can we do the greatest thing ever" project.
I note that there is still a hole in the ground where the world trade centers used to stand, a disgrace and a shame at this late date. We should have built three towers, taller than the other ones... or five towers, four of them half as tall as the one in the middle.
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