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The article discusses projects that fail despite large budgets. Eg. "Marc Dunkelman spent years cataloging the many failures to revamp Penn Station, a number o
by apsec112 7y ago
The article discusses projects that fail despite large budgets. Eg.
"Marc Dunkelman spent years cataloging the many failures to revamp Penn Station, a number of which came complete with hefty doses of federal funding. Each time, the story was the same: Plenty of people who wanted to build, and plenty of money with which to build, but too many people with vetoes who simply didn’t want the building to happen."
- pas 7y agoBut that's not actually true. That hefty sum was nowhere near sufficient! Sure, it was hefty, but the parties involved were not ready to do real serious work. NYC could have used eminent domain, and yes that would have likely gone to the courts, but that is how it is supposed to work. Or they could have bought the thing, but that was too much money again!