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Government at it's finest. You can probably take any random person off the street, put them in as project manager, and complete this for less. The incompetency
by hanniabu 11y ago
Government at it's finest.
You can probably take any random person off the street, put them in as project manager, and complete this for less. The incompetency the government has in handling projects is absurd.
- lintiness 11y agolet's give 'em our healthcare.
- Edmond 11y agoprobably more to do contracting bureaucracy than incompetence. With all of these public works projects there are just too many hands in the bowl to make it efficient. The alternative would be to do it dictatorially, which would not be acceptable either.
- imglorp 11y agoMore likely, bureaucracy AND incompetence. Each begets the other forever.
- PhantomGremlin 11y agobureaucracy AND incompetence You forgot corruption, the third member of the triad.
- jessriedel 11y agoWorth pointing out that everyone's favorite example of decent mass transit in the US, the NYC subways system, was largely constructed by private companies, or constructed by the city and immediately leased to private companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City_Subway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City_S... The subway wasn't brought under full public control until 1940, after which there was very little expansion.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoCompleting this project isn't necessarily the right solution. In this case, based on the construction costs and operating costs versus prospective usefulness, this project needed someone on board sufficiently early with the awareness and authority to say "this is a bad idea, let's not do it".