Well it doesn't help that all those pits have asbestos in them -- but that's not the project's fault. That would have to have been cleaned up eventually anyway

Well it doesn't help that all those pits have asbestos in them -- but that's not the project's fault. That would have to have been cleaned up eventually anyway. It's the same problem the US has IMO: no one wants to support grand, forward-looking projects that are going to take longer than a term in office. That's why poor NASA has its funding yoyo-ed around a 4-year presidential election cycle, and can't ever follow through on the bigger projects anymore.