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Question: Which of these are more useless- the World Trade Center Station or the Bridge to Russky Island?
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World Trade Center Transportation Hub, New York
 
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Russky Bridge, Vladivostok
 
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« on: November 06, 2014, 06:48:38 PM »

Obviously both have a purpose but which one is a greater misuse of public funds/effort/resources?

World Trade Center Transportation Hub, New York City



Cost: $3.75 billion (likely more)
Time to build: 12 years, 6 months (likely more)
Reason for noteworthiness: World Trade Center, Calatrava design
Damning fact: Serves a grand total of two subway lines.

Bridge to Russky Island, Vladivostok



Cost: $1.1 billion
Time to build: 3 years, 7 months
Reason for noteworthiness: World's longest cable-stayed bridge span, brought leaders to 2012 APEC summit. 
Damning fact: Russky Island virtually uninhabited, previously so isolated that island's garrison once starved to death due to being forgotten, highway ends in dirt dead end.

While the WTC Hub is far, far too costly and large for what it is (it could have easily been a hole in the ground), I'm challenged to think it more devoid of purpose than the (affordable and timely) Russky Bridge.
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« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2014, 06:54:42 PM »

Option 2 is objectively more wasteful, but Option 1 is ugly as sin.
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« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2014, 06:56:56 PM »

Option 2 is objectively more wasteful, but Option 1 is ugly as sin.

Yes, but obviously option 2 since a lot more people travel near the WTC than that Russian bridge.
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