[tntn]

It's not inherently wrecked, but it's often wrecked anyway.

For example, the BART extension to south Fremont cost around $150 million per mile and took 3 years longer than planned. CA can't seem to maintain roads, and when it does it costs bazillions of dollars.

[veddox]

Differentiate between a wreck and a bug. Bugs may be big, common, and expensive, but they don't invalidate the system as a whole. Bugs need fixing, a wreck requires a reimplementation. But seductive as reimplementations may be, they are usually a lot more expensive and difficult than one thought, and at the end they're still going to have bugs.

Wrecks require reimplementation. In politics, as in software development, one should think very carefully indeed before declaring something a wreck.