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Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by rosser on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:46PM (#14454921)
> I think a big unmentioned factor is probably liability and the prospect of litigation.

There was an article shared to HN some time ago arguing that the kinds of cost overruns that we see so often on infrastructure projects in the US are almost endemic to common-law countries, and radically less prevalent in civil-law countries.

I haven't been able to find that article again, but its conclusion has come up in many similar discussions since.

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Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by MaxGabriel on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:19PM (#14455176)
Isn't Louisiana Civil/Napoleonic law? They could be compared against other states to check that theory.
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Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by volkl47 on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @10:43PM (#14457603)
Louisiana's notorious corruption issues are probably going to be an issue in drawing meaningful conclusions from such a comparison.
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