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McSweeney's Bay Bridge Investigative Report Released
Photo: Bill Hall/MTA
The main investigative piece, by Robert Porterfield and Patricia Decker, includes this up-to-the-minute bit of news about the $6.3 billion price tag for the bridge rising even higher:
Caltrans officials are expected to announce this week that problems in Asia, where the majority of the bridge is being manufactured, will push those costs even higher. Among those are problems with fabrication and shipping of critical steel components in China that could add $100 million or more to the final price tag, and international bickering over design drawings and blueprints that could ultimately cost tens of millions more.
We look forward to finishing the article soon, and, just as soon as we can make it to a bookstore, perusing the whole paper.
We should note that, while we applaud the return to old-school journalism (well, sort of), we don't necessarily get behind the fetishising of print for its own sake when it comes to the news -- the expense and distribution of this, albeit lovely, 320-page ultra-Sunday paper being prime examples of why print journalism has fallen on hard times of late. After today, the price for McSweeney's subscribers and the general public goes up to $16, plus shipping.
That being said, we're glad the Bay Bridge piece is available online, and for those of you out there who love your Sunday papers, the print edition should come as a welcome treat. The web, after all, can't compare to that sensory reading experience, and we still like to read books without the aid of a machine. We just hope there's a way that great journalism and easy distribution of the news can meet in the middle one of these days and work something out. Perhaps this is a good first step.