Cost to rebuild the Katrina-damaged highways: "at least $1.5 billion"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Rebuilding Highways to Cost at Least $1.5B

http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8CDNKN00.html

September 04,2005 | WASHINGTON -- It will cost at least $1.5 billion to rebuild highways in the Gulf Coast region that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said Sunday.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Mineta said that amount would be necessary just to restore Interstate 10 and U.S. 90, two major arteries leading into New Orleans.

Interstate 10 can't be used because the ramps are under water. U.S. 90, a hundred-mile stretch of road that runs along the Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Pascagoula, Miss., was basically destroyed.

Mineta's estimate didn't include the costs of restoring bridges and local roads in and around New Orleans, as well as roads in Mississippi and Alabama that Mineta said were "basically wiped out."

[soothsayer]

1. What is that, like a day and a half of Iraq money?

on edit: of course it's all going to halliburton so who the hell cares

[madrchsod]

2. check out these two construction pages

i used the ones in the south because of the construction costs and other considerations. it`s going to take alot more than 1.5 billion. they still don`t know if the sub strata beneath the foundations of the brigdes are intact enough to rebuild the decking and ramps...opps
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/publicinformationoffice/construc/district5pio/counties/volusia.htm
Florida Department of Transportation
http://www.roadstothefuture.com/I95_JRB_Restoration.html
I-95 James River Bridge Restoration