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We've got to take a long look at why infrastructure spending is so expensive. I think a large part of it is lack of enginnering experience from the agency level. Sure, that's a part of it. And a part of it is excessive environmental regulation (applying the same level of scrutiny to public infrastructure projects that is applied to private industry is a recipe for waste), safety regulation, project labor agreements, set-aside and preference rules that encourage endless layering of contractors and subcontractors to game the system, and numerous other bureaucratic requirements that slow and complicate the process.

Simplify this morass, and we'd have a lot of savings to channel into multimodal improvements alongside each highway project.

by Arl Fan on Feb 2, 2012 11:48 am • link • report

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