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London does prove that it can be turned around. So there's that, at least.
by acjohnson55 9y ago
London does prove that it can be turned around. So there's that, at least.
- mancerayder 9y agoIt's more centralized in the UK, while an old-fashioned American belief in small, local government lives on. If you read the article, the ARC tunnel project needed (or initially thought it would obtain) collaboration between governors of New York, New Jersey, Transit Authority, and the Fed government. If you work in systems, that's like a disk array striped across several disks, the failure of any one causing the array to fail. First Corzine proposed it (the second or so in as many decades), then Christie replaces him and uses its cancellation for political gain (a fact with such frustration that I can't express it politely), then the project comes alive again at higher cost and with Obama Federal funding promises overturned by Trump. Whoever said that decentralized control of infrastructure in a short-term-minded political environment was a good idea needs to wake up and visit countries in Europe or Asia with vastly superior infrastructure and ponder the idea that 18th century ideas could perhaps be wrong in 2018.
- acjohnson55 9y agoThe difference in centralization is striking. When I lived in Wales, the "no smoking in bars" law went into effect nationwide. Such a concept is nearly unthinkable in the USA.