By Lunatic Go To PostIt would have easily costed double that being a government infrastructure program.
By Frustrated_me Go To PostDouble? you're being conservative. It would have cost way more than that, late by 10+ years and look nothing like the originally proposed plan. The maintenance cost would baloon out of control and it would literally be a social walfare jobs program at that point.And now consider that it would be built over dumped munitions from WW2 and throw in some nuclear waste too.
By Not Go To Postwhat the fuuuuuuuuck lmaooThe propaganda machine never stops.
nyt has to pump one of these out a week to keep the state happy
By Laboured Go To PostAll the big bases are basically self contained little meccas. Lol at this shit.
Bent Flyvbjerg, a professor at the University of Oxford who has studied scores of projects around the world, found that 92 percent of them overran their original cost and schedule estimates, often by large margins — in part, he said, because cost estimates are “systematically and significantly deceptive.”
“A lot of projects are not delivering what they promised to deliver,” he said.
“You can’t say these were an accident,” he said of most cost overruns. “We could do better. We haven’t gotten honest estimates in a lot of cases.”
Mr. Schofer said many projects are justified by estimating that future benefits will exceed costs, but when the costs go up astronomically, no one recalculates the ratio.
In a candid admission of how the political world operates, Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, once dismissed cost overruns on a transportation hub intended for the bullet train.
“In the world of civic projects, the first budget is really just a down payment,” he wrote in a guest newspaper column in 2013. “If people knew the real cost from the start, nothing would ever be approved. The idea is to get going. Start digging a hole and make it so big there’s no alternative to coming up with the money to fill it in.”
The mistakes, he said, include a lack of transparency to the public, flawed contracts that put government agencies at the mercy of contractors and a failure to attract enough private investment to bear some of the project’s risk.It's almost as-if contractors are allowed to lie win a bid because they now once dirt is dug up they good to go and can keep increasing the cost and blame it on *handwaves* everything
By Patriotism Go To PostCongrats to Barbados for finally throwing off the shackles of monarchy.I mean they did that back in 1966😂
By Lunatic Go To PostI mean they did that back in 1966😂
😂 I get you
By Fenderputty Go To PostTim Scott has been rocking with Trump for a min now
What a combo. Magaa 2024
By Lunatic Go To PostJust shows how powerful the family actually are.Their reach expands to getting Weezer record deals, which is truly frightening
Cunts
The RNLI has confirmed an incident took place following claims Hastings RNLI lifeboat crew were blocked from going out to sea by people angry at them for rescuing refugees in the Channel.
Speaking of the war on Christmas, when do we get to go nuclear? It's about time Christmas fucks right on off.
Author Alice Sebold publicly apologized Tuesday to the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that was the basis for her memoir Lucky and said she was struggling with the role she played “within a system that sent an innocent man to jail.”
Anthony Broadwater, 61, was convicted in 1982 of raping Sebold when she was a student at Syracuse University. He served 16 years in prison.
Sebold wrote in 1999’s Lucky of being raped and then spotting a Black man in the street several months later who she believed was her attacker.https://apple.news/A9ohR28zgTqysWxNpTTT59g
Sebold, who is white, went to police. An officer said the man in the street must have been Broadwater, who had supposedly been seen in the area.
After Broadwater was arrested, Sebold failed to identify him in a police lineup, picking a different man as her attacker because she was frightened of “the expression in his eyes.”
But prosecutors put Broadwater on trial anyway, telling Sebold.
Just another day...
Also please note how this article is all about the person that wrongfully accused the innocent and how courageous she is for apologizing. In case it gets lost in context of how the media shapes these stories.
By DY_nasty Go To Postlol cuomoHe gone
Montreal stays winning being the best affordable city remaining in Canada. Bilingual, beautiful people, all four seasons, great cafe/night life scene, distinctive architecture, great public transportation that's being extended via additional metro stops, bike lanes and a new fast train system. How long it'll remain "cheap" (comapred to Vancouver and Toronto) remains to be seen.
By Frustrated_me Go To PostMontreal stays winning being the best affordable city remaining in Canada. Bilingual, beautiful people, all four seasons, great cafe/night life scene, distinctive architecture, great public transportation that's being extended via additional metro stops, bike lanes and a new fast train system. How long it'll remain "cheap" (comapred to Vancouver and Toronto) remains to be seen.Sounds a bit shit to me.
By JesalR Go To PostI love Montreal, Frustrated, but I’m not having winter as a selling pointYou ever been skiing or snowboarding? Fun as fuck. Plenty of great things to do in winter.
apparently that school shooter in michigan literally put a timer up on social media smh
let me drive a nice car tho
let me drive a nice car tho
By Perfect Blue Go To PostYou ever been skiing or snowboarding? Fun as fuck. Plenty of great things to do in winter.Not in Montreal, but yeah, I hear that. I was just nowhere near prepared for -14c. It’s a gorgeous city that’s just a bit harder to appreciate when you can’t feel your ears
I can understand finding the cold unbearable if you’re not ready and don’t have the proper clothing and attire for it. But in the winter I’ve got a big ass parka and like five layers, a winter hat, a scarf, and thicc snowboarding pants. I’m virtually indestructible
Doesn't matter it's just shit 99% of the time. You've been in it so long you don't know how bad it is. Battered wife syndrome total.
By Laboured Go To PostWinter = Bad. That's just math.factual
Aye, hence why I moved to a country where winter is barely winter.
Summer barely a summer too though so 🤷
Summer barely a summer too though so 🤷