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Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about
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On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:54:45 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 6/28/2024 7:45 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 6/28/2024 8:31 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>> On 6/28/2024 8:36 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:59:22 -0000 (UTC),
>>>> wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <v5knpl$ss2$1@panix2.panix.com>,
>>>>> Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Boston and DC both have systems built that way, with no rings at=20
>>>>>> all, and
>>>>>> it is increasingly limiting their usefulness as fewer and fewer=20
>>>>>> people are
>>>>>> working in the city center.
>>>>>
>>>>> Except that's not true for Boston: it's in the suburbs where the =
real
>>>>> commercial real estate crash has taken place, lots of empty space =
in
>>>>> office parks in the 495 belt because it's just too inconvenient,
>>>>> especially for RE that was historically dominated by industries =
that
>>>>> are still largely work-from-home compatible.=A0 Kendall, Longwood, =
the
>>>>> Back Bay, and the Seaport are all well leased and have most of the
>>>>> wet-lab space beloved of our principal industry.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now it would be great if the MBTA's construction costs weren't =
insane
>>>>> and they were capable of doing design and engineering work in-house=
 so
>>>>> they weren't hiring outside contractors for the simplest projects.
>>>>> Then maybe they could actually build the North-South Rail Link at
>>>>> an internationally competitive price rather than trying to give New
>>>>> York and London a run for the Guinness world record for most =
expensive
>>>>> mile of tunnel.=A0 That might actually make some of those more =
suburban
>>>>> office locations worthwhile, if they're reasonably close to a
>>>>> commuter-rail line.=A0 (Many of them still aren't, but could be if =
the
>>>>> MBTA had the slightest amount of strategy.)
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps a thorough audit focused on where the money is going (ie, =
how
>>>> many brothers-in-law of various officials are getting the contracts)
>>>> would help.
>>>>
>>>> This is /exactly/ the sort of task a sane Republican would seem to =
be
>>>> ideal for.
>>>
>>> A sane republican 60 years ago, maybe, when the party was actually=20
>>> focused on real world cost cutting.=A0 But the modern Republican =
Party=20
>>> is all about whittling down if not outright dismantling the =
government=20
>>> and giving money to the 1%ers.
>>=20
>> Funny, most of the 1%ers are Democrats now.=20
>
>You are wrong.  Most of the 1%ers stay OUT of the public eye.

Until they are outed, of course.

Watch for more to be outed in the future, if things get /really/
nasty.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"