Petty local oligarchs profiting from ORBP? Say it ain't so, Kerry.

ORBP skeptic Daniel B. had this to say about Tom Clevidence's reasoning.

The Bridges Project is driving up the cost of all other construction in the area. I do not remember this being used as a selling point for the project.

It surely was not. But the extraction oligarchs are making a few bucks, aren't they -- and just as surely, this WAS their chief selling point, and the one stuffed down our throats.

Clarksville council increases maximum bonding capacity for project, by Matt Koesters (Huntsville Picayune)

 ... The Clarksville Town Council unanimously voted at an Aug. 18 work session to increase the town’s maximum bonding capacity for its wastewater and stormwater projects from $37.5 million to $40.5 million to accommodate rising prices.

“The reason that it went up from our original, anticipated bond amount, was according to our engineers — and I’ve seen it myself — the cost of construction, due to the [Ohio River] Bridges Project, has gone up tremendously,” said Tom Clevidence, the town’s director of engineering and stormwater operations. “You can’t hardly get a dump truck. You can’t hardly get materials and stuff like that.

“For a contractor to bid a job, he has to figure on having to wait for concrete, wait for rock, wait for trucks, so he has to build that into his project.”

Clevidence said he believes Ohio River Bridges Project is putting a strain on the area’s supply of raw construction materials.

“It does make sense when you’ve got a billion dollars’ worth of work going on on the riverfront in this location, and they’re pulling rock from the local quarries and concrete from the local suppliers,” Clevidence said.