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- Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America https://slate.com/business/2023/02/subway-costs-us-europe-public-transit-funds.html 249 comments
- We Finally Know Why It Costs So Damn Much to Build New Subways in America https://slate.com/business/2023/02/subway-costs-us-europe-public-transit-funds.html 96 comments economics
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- The California housing crisis is a crime against the young by the old. https://slate.com/business/2019/05/california-housing-crisis-boomer-gerontocracy.html 84 comments
- Trump administration ousts Matthew Doherty, head of U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. https://slate.com/business/2019/11/matthew-doherty-ousted-us-interagency-council-on-homelessness-trump-administration.html 42 comments
- Minneapolis ends single-family zoning, undoing a major component of housing segregation. https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family-zoning-housing-racism.html 38 comments
- Minneapolis ends single-family zoning, undoing a major component of housing segregation. https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family-zoning-housing-racism.html?via=homepage_recirc_engaged 17 comments
- Elon Musk’s Los Angeles tunnel has so little promise it’s a miracle he built it at all. https://slate.com/business/2018/12/elon-musks-los-angeles-tunnel-has-so-little-promise-its-a-miracle-he-built-it-at-all.html 12 comments
- America needs a bigger, better bureaucracy - by Noah Smith https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/america-needs-a-bigger-better-bureaucracy 10 comments
- Self-driving cars, SUVs, and the trolley problem. https://slate.com/business/2019/07/self-driving-cars-suvs-pedestrians-deaths.html 4 comments
- Minneapolis ends single-family zoning, undoing a major component of housing segregation. https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family-zoning-housing-racism.html?via=gdpr-consent 1 comment
- MTA elevators are the perfect example of New York's cost problems https://slate.com/business/2019/09/mta-elevators-are-the-perfect-example-of-new-yorks-cost-problems.html 1 comment
- Chicago’s Deep Tunnel: Is it the solution to urban flooding or a cautionary tale? https://slate.com/business/2019/01/chicagos-deep-tunnel-is-it-the-solution-to-urban-flooding-or-a-cautionary-tale.html 0 comments
- Zoom is the best thing to happen to local government in years. https://slate.com/business/2021/02/local-government-zoom-community-meeting-housing-racism.html 0 comments
- Put restaurants outside. https://slate.com/business/2020/04/restaurants-reopen-outside-coronavirus.html 0 comments
- Will life go back to normal after the coronavirus? https://slate.com/business/2020/03/coronavirus-goodbye-to-the-before-times.html 0 comments
- Pluralistic: In defense of bureaucratic competence (23 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/ 0 comments
Linked pages
- The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html?_r=2 225 comments
- How California’s faltering high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-high-speed-rail-consultants-20190426-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter 86 comments
- The French exception | The Economist https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/12/15/the-french-exception 46 comments
- Why Doesn’t America Build Things? https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a39e/why-doesnt-america-build-things 23 comments
- Elon Musk’s Los Angeles tunnel has so little promise it’s a miracle he built it at all. https://slate.com/business/2018/12/elon-musks-los-angeles-tunnel-has-so-little-promise-its-a-miracle-he-built-it-at-all.html 12 comments
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