MrNewking t1_jbp3dou wrote
Reply to comment by ketzal7 in Cost of 2nd Avenue Subway extension to East Harlem balloons to $7.7B by Grass8989
Bingo ☝️
It costs less to hire contractors short term then the same cost of hiring and keeping staff.
Long term those contractor cost balloon and an internal team is cheaper, but it's political sucide to pay a higher up front cost so that the next guy in office has it cheaper.
planning_throwaway1 t1_jbxzoa1 wrote
Not to mention the importance of institutional knowledge, and just having the bandwidth to manage projects.
NYC used to have hundreds more planners and engineers on staff. All those jobs and more get outsourced to private consultants at 3x the cost now, while they're managed by an overworked skeleton crew.
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