And if $250million tags consistently turn into $6billion price tags, eventually we won&#x27;t believe the $250million estimates either. Those billions aren&#x27;t coming for free, they&#x27;re coming out of the social capital of various entities, entities that you&#x27;d probably rather weren&#x27;t blowing billions of dollars worth of social capital like that.<p>The <i>other</i> way to build large public works is to figure out why they are so expensive and actually <i>fix it</i>, and then build things for less than 24x the original estimate in the first place.<p>And if that can&#x27;t be done, maybe it actually shouldn&#x27;t be built.<p>(I mean this in general, not about this specific case. But it is always something. And that is indicative of a problem on it&#x27;s own.)