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How is all that "shoving it thru"?

In the real world, "shoving it through" means taking action well before a political concensus has been reached. Political decisions on infrastructure aren't made on tidy engineering timetables. They are made when enough people decide that they are ready. And if that seems too long for you, well, too bad.

I lived in Dallas in the late 70's and early 80's. Central Expressway was a problem, and it had been a problem for 20 years before I got there. The political concensus on what to do took a lot of time. I left Dallas long before it was finished, but it did get finished. And the doomsday predictions made over the preceeding 30 years never really panned out.

You can either face the reality that a lot of your fellow Texans aren't ready for this yet, on the scale that it is proposed, or you can keep acting like everyone who is opposed to the TTC is terminally stupid. Just don't be surprised to see obstacles spring up where they didn't have to be.