That was 6 years of planning mostly what to do, presumably. Another problem with the US legal environment is that all this "planning" effort we do now goes int

That was 6 years of planning mostly what to do, presumably. Another problem with the US legal environment is that all this "planning" effort we do now goes into the whether, not the what. That means despite 1000s of pages, final designs are often lousy and ad-hoc, rather than a plank in a longer term integrated vision. Public transit makes the problem especially clear, as the benefits for integration vs random flashy projects to hype up the Andrew Cuomo du jour is extremely stark.