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Re:Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay ... by closeparen on Sunday November 25, 2018 @08:44PM (#18530392)
Yep. In many ways we are simply stuck with whatever we built before we lost the ability to build things. Not because it’s the best, but because it’s no longer cost effective to improve at current efficiency levels.
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Re:Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay ... by selestify on Monday November 26, 2018 @04:56AM (#18532229)
How did we become so inefficient?
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Re:Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay ... by scruple on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:57PM (#18536732)
I don't really think that it's about inefficiency or incompetence. Rather, it's about where our priorities, as a society, are today when it comes to infrastructure projects vs. what it was in the post Great Depression era.

Here [0] is an article to covers parts of this exact subject.

[0]: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2013/08/09/building-the-bay-bri...

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