According to Wikipedia's article on the Bay Bridge replacement section, the original estimate to build a new eastern section of the bridge with a tower span was $2.6 billion. But due to the increasing costs of steel and concrete, which is due largely to the huge demand in China where new factories are blooming to build us more products that are a few dollars less than the same products made here in the US, the new estimate is $6.2 billion. It's still an estimate because the tower is nowhere to be seen. Who knows how much it will cost once it starts creeping up out of the bay?
Cheap manufacturing in China is saving us all a lot of money, right? So much so that I think the new bridge should be called The Wal-Mart Bridge when it's done.
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