[HN Gopher] Transit Costs Project
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Transit Costs Project
Author : plc95
Score : 35 points
Date : 2020-09-01 20:30 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (transitcosts.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (transitcosts.com)
| travisporter wrote:
| This is great!
|
| But I don't know if it's because of 2020 or I'm just a cynic, but
| getting gov't or even the private sector to implement solutions
| that come out of such a think tank is going to be tough. I feel
| that people in power are becoming very nearsighted
| throwaway0a5e wrote:
| Governments that are poor and have no choice but to perform
| efficiently are the only ones that do.
| supernova87a wrote:
| Fitting. "There will be a small project delay of 8 months to get
| the website to a state where it's able to serve active web
| visitors. Also, please increase our budget by 20%."
| mcint wrote:
| It has been hugged to death. Neither archive.org or google's web
| cache have it.
| fmajid wrote:
| It's not just transit. All local government projects in the US
| suffer from cost disease. No doubt corruption and waste plays a
| part, as do rapacious unions, but there is also the whole
| machinery of public participation designed to prevent future
| Robert Moses from steamrollering their pet projects, which worked
| all too well.
| omgwtfbyobbq wrote:
| It's not just government. At my company some business units do
| their best to spend as much as they can, even if it's grossly
| inefficient. To me, it feels like Parkinson's law both in terms
| of time and resources.
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