Are we fucking around here? There are exactly two construction projects that got estimated on time and cost in the US. Cost overruns are so routine as to not be noticeable.
In fact, if this is not the case, then this makes a good argument for the cancelation of CA HSR since it must be run by notoriously incompetent people since it is delayed decades and over a hundred billion over budget.
Yeah. Construction projects arriving on time and on budget is almost unheard of, aside from maybe the construction of common structures, like residential homes, where the builders have already built the same building 100 times before.
In fact, if this is not the case, then this makes a good argument for the cancelation of CA HSR since it must be run by notoriously incompetent people since it is delayed decades and over a hundred billion over budget.