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The Hoover dam was built on time and budget, along with numerous other public works projects of the early 20 century. It’s as if nothing can get done now.
by madengr 8y ago
The Hoover dam was built on time and budget, along with numerous other public works projects of the early 20 century.
It’s as if nothing can get done now.
- woofyman 8y agoOver 100 workers died building it.
- melling 8y agoChina built 17,000 miles of high-speed rail in 15 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China There’s another 8000 on the way by 2025.
- kochikame 8y agoIt's easy to do when you can just forcibly move people and don't have to listen to what the locals think before you start laying track
- melling 8y agoThat’s a great excuse for getting right of ways. However, that doesn’t explain how they can build 17,000 miles of track and we can’t build 800.
- Sacho 8y agoUm, the US government can do that too? I'm not aware of any government that doesn't hold eminent domain powers.
- Baeocystin 8y agoChina's method of eminent domain is a bit more... forceful than you might be thinking. Source: lived in China
- carlivar 8y agoAh, does China go through the courts for every segment, taking months or years (including determining fair value for compensation)? Dodger Stadium was built by razing a poor but cultural neighborhood and it is now considered to have been unethically done. But it was fast...
- wolfgke 8y ago> Ah, does China go through the courts for every segment, taking months or years (including determining fair value for compensation)? Which sounds like a very inefficient court system to me.
- kochikame 8y agoThe UK government has to go through lengthy rounds of consulting with local citizens, groups, other interested parties in order to build anything like this. Building a new runway at Heathrow took so long because of years and years of consultations and negotiations. China doesn't have to do that.
- dmode 8y agoChina also federally funds them. But God forbid if the US Federal govt spends some infrastructure money on the coastal elites. That will be blasphemy
- jfoutz 8y agoThere was also a world wide depression. I kinda think that paying the minimum possible attracts low quality workers, which is ok, but sub optimal. Making the pay competitive, like it was then, might reduce the total cost.