American planners: we wanted to build 3 new bus lines but we were only given $3 and a mandate to give it contract it out to the mayor's cousin's anti-homeless company that has 50% cop employees.
"The design and prototyping was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [...] Each prototype came to about $10,000 including design, materials and engineering, says Odbert, but the idea is that the cost for each shade would drop to about $2,000 if mass produced."
Believe it or not those are kinds of average numbers for street furniture. Shit is pointlessly expensive due to contracting and a lack of central planning.
And the scale of what is needed to really do the job is hundreds of thousands to millions.
American planners: we wanted to build 3 new bus lines but we were only given $3 and a mandate to
give itcontract it out to the mayor's cousin's anti-homeless company that has 50% cop employees."The design and prototyping was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [...] Each prototype came to about $10,000 including design, materials and engineering, says Odbert, but the idea is that the cost for each shade would drop to about $2,000 if mass produced."
Believe it or not those are kinds of average numbers for street furniture. Shit is pointlessly expensive due to contracting and a lack of central planning.
And the scale of what is needed to really do the job is hundreds of thousands to millions.