Must be union projects.
Remember the Big Dig 3.5 mile highway/tunnel project in Boston?
Originally estimated to cost $2.8 billion and be complete in 1998 it dragged out until Dec. 2007.
And the Boston Globe estimated that the project will ultimately cost $22 billion (including interest).
When finally paid for the Big Dig will cost almost three times the cost of building the Panama Canal, in current dollars!
And as soon as it was completed the tunnel started falling apart due to faulty workmanship.
If labor unions had been involved in building the first trans-continental railroad it would still be stalled at the Council Bluffs western city limits.
Yes, the Journal Sentinel had no mention of how unions and corruption possibly contributed to these cost overruns.
Don’t forget the piles and piles of Federal, State and Local regulations which drive the cost of these projects in the stratosphere.
Environmental impact reports, land use regulations, zoning laws and appeals, construction regulations all add cost and time to these projects.
I heard one estimate that the cost of the project due to these types of regulations makes it at least double to triple otherwise.