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How this costs $604 million is beyond me. Why do costs spiral out of control so much in California? Am I missing something maybe?

• empath75 7y ago
  Says the engineer making 300k a year in San Francisco.
  • rayiner 7y ago
    Except the $300k salary is coming out of the pocket of Proctor and Gamble and other advertisers, while the $600 million in public expenditures is coming out of state and local taxes. Public sector cost inflation and inefficiency at the state and local level hurts the poor and lower middle class the most. They both pay for the excess, and are most reliant on the poor services delivered in return. (And saying “just tax the rich more” doesn’t fix the problem either. Even if you totally overhaul the state and local tax system, you’re then diverting that money to public sector workers, who are generally comfortably middle class, instead of the people who need it the most.)
• SllX 7y ago
  CEQA, pervasive unionization of labor, cronyism, and probably at least five other reasons I can’t think of at the moment. Feel free to chime in add to the list!
• mistursinistur 7y ago
  All transit projects in San Francisco are actually combined sewer, power, and water projects with transit branding. Better Market Street's budget incorporates all these components: https://www.sfcta.org/projects/better-market-street https://www.sfcta.org/projects/better-market-street