1.5 million dollars for a small footbridge? I don't see how it could have cost so much money.. The Westchester bridge was a short basic footbridge that did not require any fancy engineering. In fact it really amounted to little more than a 70 foot long stretch of dock. Even 50 thousand dollars might have been a stretch. 1.5 million is inconceivable. For that amount of money they could have built a house across it. A really nice house.