I think the US (and perhaps all other countries) have plenty of experience running roughshod over local interests. In the US case big infrastructure programs o

I think the US (and perhaps all other countries) have plenty of experience running roughshod over local interests. In the US case big infrastructure programs of the 50s were typically built on black communities; in the mid 1850s Hausmann built the central Paris of today by demolishing whatever he wanted. It’s a positive thing that people’s interests are heard as infrastructure is for everyone. If there’s going to be a road, water treatment plant, or courthouse it has to be built somewhere, so some sacrifice has to be made, but better that there is some discussion, no? There has been a destructive and cynical view of the commonweal for the last 40-50 years which has made these discussion completely oppositional but that doesn’t have to be the case. The article touches on this.