It’s becoming clear who's to blame.
in decades—everyone who worked on its admired ’70s nuclear program is long gone.) When it comes to building mass transit, America is a bit out of shape. Unfortunately, it’s not getting“With Phase 1 [of the Second Avenue Subway] complete,, and many of the most experienced managers from Phase 1 who learned by doing have left the agency, some have retired and others now work in the private sector.
In any case, the benefits of hired guns apparently do not justify the evisceration of public-sector expertise. “Consultant teams need a client who knows what it wants and is technically competent enough to direct the consultants,” the Transit Costs Project concludes. Most U.S. transit agencies are too hollowed out to fit the bill.
, Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington argue that consultants have hollowed out government functions well beyond transit construction.
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