[briandw]

You are claiming that this is anti train and pro car conspiracy. Counter ponint : the SF Bay_Bridge cost 6.5 Billion, but was originally budgeted at 200 Million.

The US can't build anything efficiently. It's due to the massive mismanagement, bureaucratic nonsense, environmental review, permitting and NIMBY lawsuits.

The real conspiracy is that "they" never wanted a train, "they" wanted an endless jobs project.

[nradov]

The SF Bay Bridge cost $6.5B, and somehow still didn't include a bike lane.

[kristopolous]

It's mostly that we allow whiners to control the project and that's literally it.

This is the only actual difference between the US and other places

Take Los Angeles, the Santa Monica train slows down around a stop called farmdale because some whiner ran a bogus fear mongering campaign in 2011. I was at those meetings nobody liked this guy.

15 years later every trip, every day is still delayed because of this one man's stupid bitchfest