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Hoyarugby t1_j0zs40l wrote

Glad this is still going through - the head of NJ's legislature was a big booster of this, and in 2021 he lost his seat to a republican who spent like $100 or something absurd. There were fears that north NJ dems who were not enthused with the project might join with the GOP to kill it

Though I really wish the US would adopt international standards. Design-build is a bad system that just makes our infrastructure more expensive and hollows out the state capacity of transit agencies and governments. Internationally the state DOT would design the plans, then bid for companies who wanted to build it. Here we pay to outsource designs, pay to outsource evaluation of those designs, then take bids to build it

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Proper-Code7794 t1_j10prxe wrote

State can't pay the same as the Private industry so you get Not the best engineers and designers building your Bridges. One of the trades you mentioned are all very specific and what do you do with them if they're not working

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Hoyarugby t1_j10qc5h wrote

Other places globally manage to do it, why don't we learn from what they do

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CerealJello t1_j118di0 wrote

Because in the US, the government doing things is socialism.

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