October 10 2009 4:32 PM (16:32), BERNAMA News:
Bridge will be ready before 2013
October 10 2009 6.19 PM (18:19), TheStar News:
No, it's April 2013 and bridge is apparently spelled Bbridge.
It’s amazing how much news can change within 2 hours.
I decided to see how much the reported cost and anticipated date of completion of the Penang Second Bridge changed throughout the year, from 2003 to 2009. So I went through all the news source here and here, filtered the similar and obviously wrong ones, and plotted a beautiful graph:
Compiled from various news source from 2003 - 2009
Interestingly it was not too long ago in 2005 that Samy Vellu said the second bridge is not economically viable. Anyway, following the trends of the two graphs, we should be seeing further increase in cost and expected completion date. I shall be looking forward to April 2013 – I don’t remember the last time a Malaysian government mega-project was on-time and under-budget.