The acronym that comes to mind here: PPPPPP
Otherwise known as: Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
From San Francisco's Mission Local:
The Central Subway will cripple Muni for years to come
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was in town last week to tubthump the slow-rolling disaster that is the Central Subway project and to claim that, on the undetermined date it does commence service, it’ll be worth the wait.
That’s a hell of a thing to say, considering this project has been in conception since he was in high school and was put before voters when he was just out of college.
In that time, the price tag for this project has more than tripled; the final cost is now tabbed at upwards of $1.9 billion, and will all but certainly be significantly higher than that. Close to half a billion of those dollars figure to come from local sources. That’s something to think about the next time your bus doesn’t show up; Muni is a system with infinite needs and finite resources. And this is how it’s spending them.
The article goes on to point out a few of the problems - including no air ducts in the initial design, a really Byzantine connection with the existing transit system and the fact that the stations - as designed - only support trains with two cars. This line will be unable to handle peak loads. Much more at the site.
Classic Democrat leadership - first order thinking. No sense of "What are the consequences" when someone makes a decision. The people making the decisions are un-elected and bear zero responsibility for their actions. If people try to hold them to account, they always blame someone else. Not their fault.
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