[emathias]

Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Lol, add a couple of zeros to that number. There is no way in hell you can build an ADA ramp from street level to the top of a viaduct for $8,000 using union labor. $8,000 is probably what the hand rails each cost just to be fabricated and not even installed. Like honestly, in what world do you think a ramp of that size costs $8,000? That's comical.

Also they had to demolish that little Mies building first which is at least 5 figures in demo just to clear the site. Also you are wayyyyy underselling the ramps, they are a ziggurat like complex of stairs and ramps with 3 or 4 switch backs. But yeah, that costs $8,000...

I don't evenb think the fabrication of hand rails can be done for $8,000. 13 years ago we had very simple, 18-inch parkway fencing made from reused, low-grade steel components for about 100 feet of parkway and they cost about $15,000 before installation.