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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 2256220, member: 730"] Not at all. My post wasn't intended to be artful. The contract was titled "Painting of Bridge No XXX Arrigoni Bridge (Rte 66) over the CT River. (I don't recall the Br #).It's normal that steel bridge painting jobs includes the removal of the old paint. Perhaps I should have assumed that most aren't as familiar with this type of project as I so for that I apologize. My entire reason for posting was to show that the cost of repairing public structures is often much more than the original cost of those structures, not to mislead. Labor is certainly a large part of the cost but it's the fact that they had to use containment and maintain negative air pressure within the containment that made it so expensive. It's not the hourly rate of the workers but the enormous amount of time that process involves. That and the fact that the bridge had to be kept open to traffic for the entire time. Furthermore, it's not public employees who design and build these structures. It's done by private industry. But then, as we saw during the Rowland administration, elected officials can't always be trusted to hire the most qualified or efficient private contractors. [/QUOTE]