They’ve a lot of canals, the ladders are custom, they’ll need to be coated to stop them from corroding, and that’ll be the installed price, so that’s a small team driving round, barriering off bits of the canal while the work is done
If anything, seems cheap for a council job. My town would probably spend ten times that on the desk study to decide where they’ll go and to get the paperwork together.
and replace them every year when they rot out, or do the aluminium ones that will outlast their own aesthetic appeal but remain functional for a decade.
Those are some expensive ass ladders
They’ve a lot of canals, the ladders are custom, they’ll need to be coated to stop them from corroding, and that’ll be the installed price, so that’s a small team driving round, barriering off bits of the canal while the work is done
If anything, seems cheap for a council job. My town would probably spend ten times that on the desk study to decide where they’ll go and to get the paperwork together.
And they’ll probably be designed to be strong enough for a human to use, because that’s good safety design.
I’ll throw some 2x4s down anchored with sand bags for 50k
and replace them every year when they rot out, or do the aluminium ones that will outlast their own aesthetic appeal but remain functional for a decade.
It’s called job security
https://xkcd.com/37/