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The English-world is TERRIBLE at building transit. This is why. (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Infrastructure analyst Alon Levy has written a lot about this issue in their blog. A lot of it comes down to aversions to maintaining in-house expertise in government agencies (preferring outsourcing to contractors) and (particularly in the US) an exceptionalist belief that there is nothing to learn from other (implicitly lesser and/or culturally alien) countries.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The video goes into some other issues as well. As in massive NIMBY problems, which other countries just ignore. The other big one is feature creep. As in overbuilding safety features, adding grant architecture instead of utilitarian designs and so forth. then projects are downsized to meet demand, but usually to a lower tier transit system so metro to tram and then bus, rather then looking at what others are doing.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    As in massive NIMBY problems, which other countries just ignore.

    Not exactly ignore, but they don't seem to overvalue them as much. Sometimes projects are changed, but the mayors in most mainland European cities seem much less likely to just give up.

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