In my experience the situation is the exact opposite. The "city planners" tend to produce perfectly reasonable transit plans, moving the most people for the le

In my experience the situation is the exact opposite. The "city planners" tend to produce perfectly reasonable transit plans, moving the most people for the least money, which then occasionally get derailed and set on fire by city or state politicians who have different interests in mind. This isn't the fault of city planners: https://www.propublica.org/article/chris-christies-tunnel-tango https://www.propublica.org/article/chris-christies-tunnel-ta... There are infinitely more examples.