How much extra do you think it would have cost to add an 6' walkway to the bridge when it was built, merely as a future-proofing mechanism? When your first thought is, "No one would ever want to walk from one side to the other instead of using some kind of transportation," these are the kind of results you get.

A billion dollars for a pedestrian bridge? That thing had better be made of gold, then.

Do you think that the city should engage a -- civil engineering project to build a pedestrian bridge over a navigable canal?

Uhmm? Yes? Have you somehow missed that there's a stadium on the other side of the canal? There are a lot of things in the southwest corner of the map, not just one hotel. I do not believe there's any other country on this planet where this is even a question. That bridge would absolutely get built. Building the stadium cost a big sum of money. A simple pedestrian bridge costs something like 50 000 $, maybe 200 000 $ if you want a fancy one. How would it not be possible for the stadium to pay that? It's an increase of about one percent to the project's expenses.

And if they somehow forgot to include the necessary traffic connections in requirements for giving the permission to build the stadium, then I can assure you that the state is able to pay for a hundred grand for simple infrastructure.