comment: >
  
  Engineering and construction estimates for infrastructure projects I'm familiar with (culverts, docks, stream restorations, and dam removals mostly) have quadrupled in my area over the last few years.  
  Everything is wildly more expensive than you would imagine now.  Partially exacerbated by costs going up during the pandemic due to labor shortages and material cost increases - but those prices have stuck around even when parts of the supply chain recovered.  
  Additionally there is just so much needed work that the kinds of companies that are capable of completing these massive jobs have more work than they can possibly get to, and can basically charge whatever they want.
context: Remember when Christi cancelled the new tunnel in 2010.  It would have been done by now. >
  
  chris christie is an unmitigated piece of shit, and the best fate he got was getting out christie'd by trump and then spent 10 days in a coma because he is an asshole. >
  
  Don't forget he deliberately blocked traffic when a mayor wouldn't support him. As a result, someone died when an ambulance couldn't get through. >
  
  Ah, good old Bridgegate, one of the strangest scandals ever.  I think somebody went to jail over it, but all of the players still have careers/jobs. >
  
  $300 Million? Is that anywhere near enough? >
  
  Drop in the bucket.  
  Total cost is expected to be about $16.1 Billion >
  
  300 million definitely seemed light to me, but 16.1 billion is a LOT. I didn't think it would be that much.  
  That said, idk how far away these things are, really.