How the US can stop wasting billions of dollars on each transit project
IMHO often the purpose of these projects isn’t to deliver transportation, it’s to keep people employed in the project.<p>That means draw it out, maximize the budget, spend every penny, etc., whereas the actual infrastructure is the excuse to keep it going.<p>Put another way, conflicts of interest tend to arise from the bureaucracy inherent in these projects. The researcher here identifies the symptoms of this but seems to see this more as an accident.