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20 years is a long time and basically means it will never happen by that fact alone.

The Green Line extension for Boston's MBTA has taken 16 years and still isn't done and has cost several billion dollars. It was discussed even longer than that. New York's subway systems experience the same delays and costs. It's embarrassing.

Free speech, land/property rights, etc. are important, but they are just excuses, as they don't seem to be the things actually slowing down these projects.




> Free speech, land/property rights, etc. are important, but they are just excuses, as they don't seem to be the things actually slowing down these projects.

Why do you say that? What is slowing them down?


Utterly broken politics at all levels, plus a ton of corruption.


Could you dive in a bit? What is "broken"? How does the corruption manifest?


I don't have a link handy but there's been a bunch of articles discussing how corrupt, for instance, the construction industry in NYC is and why this results in construction costs (like for subways) that are many times higher than anyplace else in the world.

I don't think I really need to go into detail about how broken US politics are. January 6, 2021 is proof of this.




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