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Originally Posted by mr1138
Exactly. The reason there is a huge difference between the earlier and later cost projections is not some kind of gigantic mystery. The same exact thing has happened to infrastructure projects of ALL KINDS, all over America for the past 10 to 15 years. This is the reason I earlier pointed to the RTD B Line Commuter Rail in Colorado (where I live). Per the article, the project backers put forth a ballot measure 2004 that included a cost estimate that " leasing the track from Burlington Northern Sante Fe would cost $66 million. But in 2011, the track owner, BNSF Railway, told RTD it would actually cost $535 million" As of 2022, the project is now estimated to cost $1.5 billion — about triple the original estimate.
Finding that the cost of land, labor, and construction materials literally doubled (actually, for Denver's project they have tripled) within less than two decades is not an "interesting revelation. " It is the obvious situation we are and have been in for decades and anybody who has been paying attention already knows this. The cost overruns are not some kind of "waste fraud and abuse" that can somehow be overcome by endlessly analyzing the situation. |
You claim that it isn't a big mystery while backing up that claim with nothing more than the fact that other projects have had cost overruns. That's like saying a debilitating disease whose cause hasn't been identified isn't actually a mystery because other people have also been infected. Then you say it isn't a mystery that the cost of land, labor, and construction materials literally doubled without presenting any evidence that they actually have. Then you claim it isn't due to waste, fraud and abuse (in quotation marks even though I didn't say that) and despite not specifying what you think the cause actually is.
It's basically just saying that people should just accept it without question because it's happened (at a much smaller scale) in other places. I guess that's what "paying attention" means to some people.
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