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Originally posted by island911
So how many years? . ..at 1,000 loads per day, everyday (like that will happen) A bit over TWO YEARS!
so, come on now . .. .you told me how many millions are in a billion  . .so how many YEARS is this expected to take? (to move a mountain. . .east-coast sized mnt
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Actually, it started three years ago or so, and won't be completed until 2008. But it's not as if we're hauling all that time. There was a year or so when we did not haul at all. And I've never heard of a 24-hour plan. We're currently running about a hundred trucks a day I think, fifty per shift over two shifts. It's something like 16 million cubic yards altogether.
But again, Island, sometimes it sounds like you take the very most easy road in these discussion. Point out how large and expensive it is, and then conclude it's idiotic. Yeah, it's big. Yeah, it's expensive. But what's really expensive is a hundred thousand people sitting in their cars parked on the freeway for an extra hour each day, and businesses deciding to bag their Seattle operations until we get our you-know-what together. It's like getting old. It seems like a bad deal until you consider the alternative.