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Gu_Ming t1_iuzqece wrote

Reply to comment by queensnyatty in Outcome of Hochul vs. Zeldin Could Put Fate of MTA on the Line, Insiders Say by King-of-New-York

To be fair, everywhere public transport projects run over budget and late on deadline. The more you add hoops to jump through for that budget, the more that delays the construction and inflate the budget further.

There is real conundrum between efficiency and monitoring.

After the projects are completed and people start enjoying them and they start generating revenues, the delays and overbudget get forgotten easily.

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queensnyatty t1_iv0jpt8 wrote

No transit project anywhere in the world in the last two decades has as bad a record as bad as east side access. The MTA is literally the worst.

The Elizabeth line, for example, had its problems but not even at the same order of magnitude as east side access. That was a much more ambitious project too.

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