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Remember that $925 is a per block rate. There is no way that transport, delivery, and installation is gonna eat up $900 per block. They will be transported on f
by doodlebugging 4y ago
Remember that $925 is a per block rate. There is no way that transport, delivery, and installation is gonna eat up $900 per block. They will be transported on floats that can handle multiple blocks. A single block weighs approximately a ton so a loaded float can haul up to a couple dozen at a time. It will have the equipment to unload and place the blocks on the trailer so if you bought 100 blocks you have at most 5 loads. It takes one man less than 5 minutes to unload and place a block and if he has a swamper it is less time than that since the swamper can manage grabbing the blocks or setting them, either one. Your labor and fuel costs are gonna be low too since these will be procured locally. Any way you slice it you don't get to $900/block unless someone really pads the invoice. It was a giant rip-off from what I see.
- Scoundreller 4y ago> unless someone really pads the invoice. Definitely. Since another level of government was paying (though a common set of tax payers...), there seemed to be a lot of running the clock. The war on drugs must not have budgetary limits! While creative, the entire strategy was ineffective: within hours the blocks would be removed, operations would resume and then the city would do it again. Textbook insanity.
- doodlebugging 4y agoYeah. Someone had a friend who needed some public money and would be happy to buy them lunch, or a boat or something, if they got that contract.