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Judging by the pace of the SF chinatown muni tunnel, the digging happens relatively quickly...the slow parts are the parts before and after the digging. In SF,
by irq11 7y ago
Judging by the pace of the SF chinatown muni tunnel, the digging happens relatively quickly...the slow parts are the parts before and after the digging.
In SF, they spent years surveying, moving utilities, excavating stations, etc., dug the actual tunnel in (IIRC) a year, and have spent subsequent years finishing all of the other stuff that makes it more than a hole in the ground.
- Lammy 7y agoTo be fair, _everything_ takes unnaturally long to happen in SF due to all the ways a Very Concerned* Neighbor can tie any project up in approval meetings. https://forms.sfplanning.org/NeighborhoodNotification_InfoPacket.pdf https://forms.sfplanning.org/NeighborhoodNotification_InfoPa... [*] About their property values
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- irq11 7y agoYeah, that’s not a very useful comment. I realize it’s popular to blame NIMBYs for everything bad in SF these days (“NIMBY” is tech for “I’m not getting 100% of what I want, immediately!”), but your comment does nothing to address the substance of the observation: the digging was the fast part of the SF project. Maybe the whole thing could have been done in half the time without public meetings, but that’s neither here nor there. The work of moving utilities and keeping sinkholes from forming in downtown SF is still incredibly complex, and seems to me to make up the bulk of the schedule.