more: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47056
Silly me but a little web search brings up this: http://www.discount-wheelchair-ramps.com/ada_modular_ramp.htm Pretty good looking and an aluminum 12 footer with hand rails is $1,003.00. If you feel the need to do some blocking and clad the exterior for looks --- well that could add a bit more. This was from the Onion Right? Right?
Sorry, no. It was from the San Fran Chronicle.
You look at the ramp for $1000 and think not too bad. But then I remember that the first new car I bought cost only $2500. And it came with a V-8, power steering, automatic transmission, and a radio.
Silly people this was all about Union jobs - and of course letting themselves ‘feel’ self righteous because they ‘did’ the ‘right’ thing - even if it was a day late and a few hundred thousands over costs.
And someone else’s money. That’s the REALLY important part.