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The way forward is to fix the problems, mostly corruption and might-as-well-be-corruption, that lead to NYC being the single worst place on the planet for publi
by bradleyjg 8y ago
The way forward is to fix the problems, mostly corruption and might-as-well-be-corruption, that lead to NYC being the single worst place on the planet for public works projects. Not to throw up our hands and stop building.
- drugme 8y agoNYC being the single worst place on the planet for public works projects. I'm not sure what the way forward is, and I wouldn't begin to know how to fix the corruption problem. But I do know that blatant hyperbole like the above can't possibly begin to help.
- bradleyjg 8y agoNo rail project anywhere has spent even close to what the MTA is spending per km on either the second avenue subway or east side access. I suppose you could say somewhere like Syria is worse because they can't even try, but it seems a pretty defensible statement.
- drugme 8y agoNo rail project anywhere has spent even close to what the MTA is spending per km Eyeballing figures for certain other modern projects in comparable cities readily indicates this simply isn't true.