FUD Wrote:
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> Throughout my career in land use and environmental
> planning, I saw properly planned and flexibly
> scheduled projects move through CEQA and NEPA with
> minor if any glitches, and often get improved
> incrementally by adjusting to what was found along
> the way. I've also seen projects that are not
> properly planned and justified get hung up, but
> seldom killed; when something comes out of CEQA
> and NEPA in the latter group, the project is often
> improved, but is always late and over budget.
>
> Yes, anything like CEQA and NEPA (and Subdivision
> Map Act, and federal and state r/w rules, and
> pollution control rules, etc etc) can be used to
> hold up a project. Yes, project opponents or those
> who want something from the project (NIMBY, NOPE,
> YIMBY, labor unions, or whatever) will use any
> tools available to hold things up that they don't
> like, because delay is the main thing that can
> kill a project. People run out of money and/or
> will to do something. I've rarely seen an
> actually good project, ultimately, killed by that,
> though; if the project has enough support and
> solves an actual problem, it will continue in some
> (often improved) form.

Like the "big dig" in Boston ?