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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
The different dynamic is that nobody really cares when a road or bridge or highway or whatever is built piecemeal. Rail projects of any kind are held to an impossibly high standard while road boondoggles are shrugged off.
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1. No, road boondoggles are not overlooked. The Big Dig is probably the poster child for infrastructure boondoggles.
2. The problem isn't the piecemeal nature of the construction it's the order the pieces were to be constructed. If it had started in either LA or SF then each section opened would at least allow people to commute into and out of that city. But in the Central Valley all it does is connect a lot of small cities that presumably don't have much demand to take a train to the next town over.