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0 pointsubernostrum7y ago0 comments

I think the point is that while you can find your pet example of an over-budget project, other people can find examples of projects that didn't have those problems.

Rushing to post "but what about the Second Avenue Subway" in any thread on this topic is not useful, since you've provided no evidence that it's representative enough to generalize to all infrastructure projects in all cities of all states of the US.

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wutbrodo7y ago

It's well known that infrastructure projects in the US overall cost way more than comparable projects do in most of the rest of the developed world. Here's just one link, from a cursory Google:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-05-31/the-u-...

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wutbrodo7y ago

It's well known that infrastructure projects in the US overall cost way more than comparable projects do in most of the rest of the developed world. Here's just one link, from a cursory Google:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-05-31/the-u-...

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0 pointsubernostrum7y ago0 comments

I think the point is that while you can find your pet example of an over-budget project, other people can find examples of projects that didn't have those problems.