01-04-2007, 11:38 PM
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"marian.rosenberg@gmail.com"
<marian.rosenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ivar Hesselager wrote:
> > Den 24.12.2006 kl. 15:26 skrev marian.rosenberg@gmail.com
> > <marian.rosenberg@gmail.com>:
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> > >
> > > Anyone have a ballpark figure idea of how much it costs to build a
> > > simple velodrome?
> > >
> >
> >
> > A new velodrome was built in Copenhagen Danmark in 2003 at the cost of 208
> > million Danish kroner, equaling 35 mill dollars.
> > For that much money you could buy 3,500,000 McDonald hamburgers in this
> > country, or - if you are not that hungy - pay 565 bricklayers to work for
> > one year.
>
> Only 565 of them? Bricklayers in Denmark must cost a lot more than
> bricklayers in China.
>
> Lessee, I figure I'm currently reasonably well off middle class at a
> lazy job making $750 US a month. Middle class starts around $125 US a
> month. A bricklayer should probably be making around $50 a month, so
> figure $550 a year because there will almost certainly be time that he
> or she doesn't work (such as Spring Festival) plus graft and excuses
> for a skimmed paycheck like being ten minutes late to work.
>
> $550 a year means two bricklayers for $1100, twenty for 11,000, two
> hundred for 110,000, two thousand for 1,100,000. twenty thousand for
> 11,000,000, or sixty thousand for 33,000,000.
>
> I might be guessing a bit high on how much a bricklayer makes but I
> figure if you have 35 million US you could easily employ 63,600 Chinese
> bricklayers for one year.
>
> What exactly you would _do_ with 63,600 Chinese bricklayers for one
> year is beyond me.
>
> (and don't any of you wise asses answer "build a velodrome" because if
> you had that many bricklayers it would take substantially less than one
> year to build...)
>
> Anyways, cool as I think it would be to have some amazing world class
> facility in one of my favorite cities in the world, I should hope that
> my friend (while he does have quite a bit of clout) isn't thinking that
> high because dreams that are dreamt that far beyond the pale of reality
> tend to fall flat and not get accomplished (especially when those
> dreams are being dreamt with other people's money).
>
> When next I see him I'll pass on the links I've already gotten and see
> where things go from there. If you'd told me this time last year that
> Hainan was going to have a stage race I wouldn't have believed you, and
> I definitely wouldn't have believed that I'd not merely get to see it
> but get to work at it so I'm willing to stretch the limits of
> reasonable thought when someone with authority says they're thinking
> Haikou really needs a velodrome.
You have been there a while. I worked a contract in
Hong Kong for a couple months. The locals were EE's, I
was software. I would ask the engineers for something
and it happened. Somehow I feel that that velodrome
will happen.
--
Michael Press
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