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Fully on agree on trying to get costs down to Spanish-levels and other developed world costs, and building everywhere while saving money. But the reasons for t
by sjsamson 4y ago
Fully on agree on trying to get costs down to Spanish-levels and other developed world costs, and building everywhere while saving money.
But the reasons for the dysfunction are pretty straight forward: there is group of engineering consultancies and construction firms (Parsons, Bechtel, HNTB, AECOM, and other non-household names) that have captured the system and profit handsomely from the status quo. All those billions of taxpayer money is going somewhere, and it's their bank accounts.