I don’t know enough about the topic to discuss the last two, but unions don’t intrinsically slow down metro development: France, for example, has one of the la

I don’t know enough about the topic to discuss the last two, but unions don’t intrinsically slow down metro development: France, for example, has one of the largest transport/trade unions (CFTD and CFT) and much stronger union laws than the US. And yet Paris has the second busiest and comprehensive metro in Europe, second only to Moscow. Not to mention how clean it is compared to anything in the US, a beautiful feat of design, architecture and engineering on its own, even! [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Democratic_Confederation_of_Labour https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Democratic_Confederat... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Métro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Métro