planning_throwaway1 t1_jd458av wrote
Reply to comment by LittleWind_ in In 2019 nyc voted to use congestion pricing to reduce carbon emissions. Three years it’s not implemented but at least the case study required by the National Environmental Protection Act is done…. 4007 pages. by tickleMyBigPoop
This is a federal requirement, unfortunately. One of those "sounds good on paper" ideas that have been a disaster for any project that might actually be good for the environment. Other countries don't do this. The cost is usually in the low millions for project of this size, but the real killer is just how long they take. 4 years for something like NYC congestion pricing sounds about right to me. Although maybe not, since it's not like there's no tolls currently, congestion pricing is largely just standardizing tolls across the board.
They were originally supposed to be short studies, just be a paragraph or two, but now in practice they look like this. Entirely to try and avoid frivolous lawsuits.
So in practice highways keep getting built, while bus ways, bike lanes and transit projects get held up for years by these things
deathhand t1_jd7c1n4 wrote
> Entirely to try and avoid frivolous lawsuits
I think you mistyped "paid by the hour consultants".
planning_throwaway1 t1_jd8le7s wrote
that too
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