alt Hacker NewsWhat indication do you have that the construction time for tunnel 3 is due to corruption or even that it's taking longer than necessary? It seems like a very large engineering project; sometimes those take time.
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Google claims the original build was supposed to take 50 years, and it will take 62 due to delays from a funding crisis before de blasio.
However, this is only the second phase of the plan, with two more phases broken out into separate projects. I've no idea if those were supposed to be a part of the original 50 year timeline or not.
> What indication do you have that the construction time for tunnel 3 is due to corruption or even that it's taking longer than necessary?
These two questions are casually put next to each other in the same sentence but they're incredibly different. Personally, I don't think that corruption is a significant factor in how long it took. The second question is way too leading/framed - "necessary" doesn't exist past the physical limits.
For example, would the same project have taken the same time in China? No. Does that mean it should've taken as long as it would've in China, as clearly it took longer "than necessary"? Not by definition.
Yeah, I have no idea how long a tunnel of this size is supposed to take, and I’m surprised if many people here do.
It’s a big project, and it is tricky to patch it after release. The thing is supposed to last 300 years, and usually we use infrastructure well past it’s intended lifespan…