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[quote user="BroadwayLion"] The difference between "putting some old stuff back in service" and building a new system is the same difference as riding a bicycle around the block as compared to a round trip to the moon. Regulations, NIMBYS, ADA, Green Beans, Bean Counters, Republicans and Democrats must all come to a consensus which is seldom possible at all, and never possible when money is the issue. The politics of doing something useful will kill any project. Ask about the new Jersey tunnels. ROAR [/quote] Developers today must consider more external variables than was the case fifty years ago. Some of the regulations that they must comply with are superfluous. But in most instances there are sound reasons for them. I want developers, for example, to show that the air that I breath and the water that I drink will not be unduly fouled because of their projects.   The McKinney Avenue trolley is being extended.  The project is on schedule.  Another street car line is being built from the Dallas convention center to Oak Cliff.  It is on schedule.  DART has completed the largest light rail network in the United States. Given the size of the project, it ran into some expected hiccups. Some of them were regulatory; most of them were unforeseen construction delays. But the project has been completed. I just came back from New York City.  The replacement for the World Trade Center appears to be well on its way.  New apartment houses and condominiums have sprung up like spring flowers on the upper west side, where I lived in the 60s and 70s.  The Barclay Center in Brooklyn is a magnificent building and has sparked new buildings around it. New York is doing what it has always done. Reinventing itself!  If I had a dollar for every time a pundit has written off New York, I could have retired 25 years ago.  The notion that American cannot complete worthwhile projects is not supported by the evidence.  As for the projects that get canceled, there is usually a good reason for it. More often than not the cost benefit ratio is not compelling.
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