> There was a time when cities built their own transit! Now you have to hire expensive Consultants from Europe or Asia because the idea that people could figure

> There was a time when cities built their own transit! Now you have to hire expensive Consultants from Europe or Asia because the idea that people could figure this out on their own with their civil engineering degrees and experience in adjascent fields is simply verboten. At the same time, you probably don't want your engineers making mistakes and not knowing about lessons learnt elsewhere; having some external expertise is likely good, even if most of the work is done by your own engineers.