mickeyflinn t1_iy4xswu wrote
It is just comical to me that anyone ever believed this shit. Do people really think tunnels are the magic answer to traffic?
PleaseBmoreCharming t1_iy4yvvb wrote
How is this legal, honestly?? Aren't there any federal regulators to prevent literal charlatans from pulling a fast one on cities across the country!?
mickeyflinn t1_iy50dv7 wrote
I don't know what there is on the Federal Side, but really the answer is in what u/PleaseBmoreCharming posted:
> The Republican Hogan administration sped up the bureaucratic process for Boring, granting a conditional permit in October 2017 and an environmental permit a few months later.
Amazingly we have all become convinced that the Bureaucratic Process is the problem. The Bureaucratic Process is what prevents shit like this.
PleaseBmoreCharming t1_iy51288 wrote
Lol that was me who posted that 😂 But you make a good point by highlighting it.
Angdrambor t1_iy5x6h0 wrote
Just take your time, do your diligence, and get it right the first time. But no. Hogan is a slut.
(apologies to all the actual sluts of the world)
Hisyphus t1_iy6eywj wrote
Hey! We don’t want Hogan. He’s a genital wart.
[deleted] t1_iy6bjxn wrote
I think the thing is that the bureaucratic process for individuals to access basic, regular, necessary services (MVA, basic home improvement building permits, etc) is so overburdened, underfunded, and intentionally arduous that big business and the media uses that to reduce necessary bureaucratic regulation of large businesses.
And they never find or improve the shit most people deal with like the MVA as that would make people understand bureaucracy doesn’t have to be a bad word.
gaiusjuliusweezer t1_iy83zwi wrote
Nonsense, the bureaucratic process strangles completely routine public works projects for asinine reasons, and we should demand better.
We’d be better off with a one bullshit boring tunnel and two subway tunnels than none of those things
incunabula001 t1_iy63kva wrote
Well more heavy rail would mean less cars on the road which would mean less traffic.
marshallaw215 t1_iy5s5d8 wrote
Yea like we haven’t already done this lol…. I always thought this sounded like bullshit
Angdrambor t1_iy5w5qx wrote
It worked in Boston.
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments