Quote Originally Posted by MrPrena View Post
Bozo forgot to include, opportunity cost, "social cost" and "social marginal cost".

Let's assume 200k vehicles commute to that bridge and next detour is 2 miles away.
Let's also assume 20mpg. So 0.1 gal of consumption.
200, 000car x .1 gal = 20,000 gal of fuel wastes.
$6/gal will cost $120k.

Also people wasted 5 min for detour.
5min x 200k vehicles = 1,000,000 min per vehicles wasted.

5min x $20/hr x 200k vehicles = wasted.
It's an old retired rail bridge. No traffic