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We care about the environment, human life, and workers rights. That comes at substantially greater cost to build.
Many other advanced, rich, highly unionized countries.. like say, France.. are able to build subways at 1/10th the per-mile cost of NYC. So its far more than that.
That's the fate of all large cities: infrastructure gets more and more complicated, and bureaucracy always keeps growing. The way to fix it is to stop building large dense cities. We need tax incentives for companies to create jobs in sparsely-populated regions and for remote jobs. Also probably something like cap-and-trade for dense office space. This way, eventually we won't need Downtowns with super-concentrated o…
This is simply not backed up by reality; the article cites examples of European major cities without this problem. And do you really think Tokyo, Seoul or Shanghai have trouble building the transit they need?
The issue is that American institutions specifically are not fit for purpose, not an issue with large cities in general.
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Someone will inevitably reply that the suburbs are not sustainable and it’s the cities that are propping them up.
This is an objectively true statement. Suburbs do not pay for their own maintenance and cities have to carry their economic weight: https://youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI?si=zYfcwVLx0DYoexnM
This report is basically just advance warning for people who live in NYC to start planning to not have it around. You don't put stuff like this into a final public report unless you think it's the most likely outcome. We know for a fact the US has neither the leadership, funding mechanism nor the incentive structures to actually build for BEYOND those 20 years anyway, so even if they were able to shore things up for…
> Hoover Dam
The irony
That's the fate of all large cities: infrastructure gets more and more complicated, and bureaucracy always keeps growing. The way to fix it is to stop building large dense cities. We need tax incentives for companies to create jobs in sparsely-populated regions and for remote jobs. Also probably something like cap-and-trade for dense office space. This way, eventually we won't need Downtowns with super-concentrated o…
Nah it’s North American thing lots of stuff gets built in South America reasonably efficiently, and certainly much more quickly. Look at how much the Rio subway has expanded recently despite being about the same size as NY
Consultants. Is this the whole problem?
My own experience with consultants is that this model rarely works. Consultants are usually not knowledgeable enough about what you are doing to do a good job. They’re also incentivized to drag things out and create dependencies and if this harms the project or the business they just skate on to the next one.
I really do wonder if a shift to outsourcing and consultants is the entire reason America can’t build.
This report is basically just advance warning for people who live in NYC to start planning to not have it around. You don't put stuff like this into a final public report unless you think it's the most likely outcome. We know for a fact the US has neither the leadership, funding mechanism nor the incentive structures to actually build for BEYOND those 20 years anyway, so even if they were able to shore things up for…
We care about the environment, human life, and workers rights. That comes at substantially greater cost to build.
That's the fate of all large cities: infrastructure gets more and more complicated, and bureaucracy always keeps growing. The way to fix it is to stop building large dense cities. We need tax incentives for companies to create jobs in sparsely-populated regions and for remote jobs. Also probably something like cap-and-trade for dense office space. This way, eventually we won't need Downtowns with super-concentrated o…
> That's the fate of all large cities: infrastructure gets more and more complicated, and bureaucracy always keeps growing. This is simply not backed up by reality; the article cites examples of European major cities without this problem. And do you really think Tokyo, Seoul or Shanghai have trouble building the transit they need? The issue is that American institutions specifically are not fit for purpose, not an is…
This report is basically just advance warning for people who live in NYC to start planning to not have it around. You don't put stuff like this into a final public report unless you think it's the most likely outcome. We know for a fact the US has neither the leadership, funding mechanism nor the incentive structures to actually build for BEYOND those 20 years anyway, so even if they were able to shore things up for…
The new socialists tax you at 40% and then give you no services and a huge payroll of government workers. Socialism IS the problem.
Edit: FYI socialism doesn’t mean the government controls or owns anything. It means that the workers own the means of production.