https://twitter.com/CaHSRA/status/1771266082294149509
Creating jobs is how this historic project gets done.#DYK: this week, we reached a milestone β creating more than 13,000 construction jobs on the United Stateβs first 220 mph #HSR system.
— CA High-Speed Rail ππ¨ (@CaHSRA) March 22, 2024
10,000 of these jobs have come just in the last 5 years! #BuildHSR #FactFriday pic.twitter.com/FoaC6fWrA7
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What do they do all day? 16 years of paperwork? Lol
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America combines the worst aspects of first and third world government. Like the first world, we have onerous regulations, slow political processes, strong community input, strong property rights, and high costs. Like the third world, we have lazy bureaucrats, massive fraud, and a culture of gibs.
The first world can build big projects by throwing armies of talented bureaucrats at the problem. The third world can build big projects by stealing land from peasants and paying laborers $2 a day. America can't do either.
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lol culture of gibs is most certainly a 1st world thing. Welfare just doesn't exist in much of the world.
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no 1st world country has anything on latam. More working age people live from welfare than work and pay taxes in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_income_trap
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leaving them all the time they need to racebait on the internet
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most 3rd world
countries suck at building infrastructure. southeast asian 
cities are dominated by mopeds and mini buses. africa 
barely has any cities. latin 
america 
looks like a ghetto version of the US. if you look up rail projects in these regions a lot of them have huge issues. like a light 
rail line in addis ababa is falling 
apart 
because of poor maintenance (it only opened in 2015).
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And? Better than a 4 seat car for one person. Even space wise
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It's a grift to funnel money to companies owned by politicians or friends of politicians.
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It's usually not that direct anymore, it's too obvious. They funnel it to the demographics most likely to support them. There's a reason civil rights apply to women, blacks, and alphabet people, but only extend to white men, religion, individual autonomy in token circumstances. They vote for Democrats and Republicans are too cucked to break it up.
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There's still a "good old boy" network between business and government that has existed for decades. Idpol nonsense merely changes the marketing and hiring practices to a degree. The least competent businesses will get the job because they already meet the ridiculous bureaucratic standards and already know the politicians that float the bids.
No one wants to tackle the regulatory issues that restrict even modest construction because too many benefit from the status quo, and voters are too uninformed too care about it. More voter knowledge won't help because there's still a problem of externalized costs that plagues government projects (regardless of what their hired economists say).
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I work for an industrial electrical company and our guys won't touch any large public works projects with a 10ft pole, they only work for private clients. Everyone tells me that doing anything government related basically relies on you knowing βthe rulesβ and they make it as slow and difficult as possible to get any actual work done. This means all the big taxpayer funded projects go to the same old boys club companies
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I work for the government (not in the US). My department was supposed to move into a new building in 2016. Not even a newly constructed building, but a refurbished one. The building we plan to move into is actually so old that historical protections apply, making everything an even bigger beurocratic disaster.
The contractor to refurbish the building went bankrupt (
) in 2014 or so. So a new bidding process had to start, due to the contract volume europe-wide. The conditions were so shit (new contractor had to assume warranty for the work done by the old one lmao) that they didnt actually find any contractor willing to do it. Then they realised that the building plan was based on old requirements that have been changed in the decade+ since the original project, so new ones had to be drawn up and approved by the notoriously understaffed and slow-working local building code office. Just that plan adjustment alone took over a year. After that was done, last year i think, a new bidding process could finally start, and last i heard they actually managed to find a company willing to do it.
But the story of course cant end yet. The building is part of a larger "complex" of many public buildings. Due to age and environmental requirements, a new centralised heating plant is being constructed to heat and warm-water supply the entire complex. And our new building has to adhere to new, extremely restrictive requirements for energy efficiency despite being at its core about 100 years old, so fulfilling these requirement is only possible with the new "green" heating plant. The energy efficiency inspection is based on the energy source at the time the inspection is done. So our building cant be finished until after the new heating plant is built and in operation, so work on our new building is completely on hold until that is finished, iirc like 2027. The building has now stood empty as a hollow shell for a decade already, so theres a decent chance a lot of additional stuff needs to be fixed, making it even more expensive and taking even longer. We will literally wait over 2 decades after the plan was made, to move into a building. Some of the people making the move will have been born after the plan was made to move.
The best thing is, despite having literally bottomless pockets, the government doesnt even pay the bills on time.
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That's nice sweaty. Why don't you have a seat in the time out corner with Pizzashill until you calm down, then you can have your Capri Sun.
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This is france isnt it
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The Lower Thames crossing has so far spent 16 years writing 63,000 pages of planning applications, costing Β£800 million and it's still not approved
https://twitter.com/J_D_89/status/1633878906456674304
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!chuds found
her!!
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Somehow that's good? Do they not stop and think about how many resources they've wasted? I hate environmentalists so much so much so much.
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i could speed up the construction by a decade just by relieving her off her post wall dry spell
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So so so many environmental reviews
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No joke. We were putting in a tiny upgrade to a water pump station recently and there was a 30 page environmental report on the impact of removing a single tree so that concrete could be laid. This wasn't even a historic or important tree either it was literally just some random ornamental non-native tree that someone had planted there
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There still building bridges and shit.
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i know it's not the same thing but i think we built and opened a few subway lines in the past 16 years in a very urbanised island lol
granted we used a lot of migrant labour but it's not something you guys should be in short supply of
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This will never happen.
1. The government uses construction projects to bribe powerful unions, who then fund their election campaigns.
2. The government sees construction projects as primarily a job creation program, and secondarily a project to construct something. Hence the tweet.
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Why can't we do the honest thing and put these people on the dole?
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