[breakem]

Did I read this right 2miles = 14+ Billion? We're proposing a tunnel through the Cleveland National Forest Corona, CA to Orange County. 11 miles, 11 billion. Never thought Cal could be outspent.

[theDentist]

OK... here's the kicker. A columnist there once figured it out: It comes to over $115000 per INCH.

[Calvin Locke]

Never thought Cal could be outspent.

Well, it's like this: Every rinky dink "organization" held up the project for stuff like [neighbor] [ethnicity] [chip on
shoulder] a statue for something that didn't really have anything to do with the neighborhood, Boston, MA, or the US
taxpayer in return for not opposing the project.

Then, there's the shakedown by LEO's for paid details.

Then, no sh*t, if they came across a sh*t hole from pre-1950, they would have to shut down the work until archeologists
could sift through it.

That's in addition to all the expected delays, like weather, graft, and corruption.