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"in san francisco it costs a million dollars to build a public toilet. ergo, we should not build public toilets, because the cost is too high" or, we should tr

by mcntsh 1y ago

"in san francisco it costs a million dollars to build a public toilet. ergo, we should not build public toilets, because the cost is too high" or, we should try to figure out why building costs so much money. 90% of the current NYC subway system was complete by 1960. in 2017, just 3km of track took 10 years and costed 5 billion dollars.

pixl97 1y ago
>or, we should try to figure out why building costs so much money There's been a billion studies on this, I suggest you go read them. One of the bigger ones is property costs over/under the stuff we're building. One of the other ones is community interests in preventing it from happening. This second one is one of the bigger issues. NIMBY can stop you in your tracks, and unless you go full authoritarianism on them, it's not easy to stop. Then add in cost disease and you start seeing there is no simple solution.