>>508680679 (OP)strong property rights and rampant culture of NIMBYism turn every single infrastructure project into a protracted abyss of lawyers and consultants extracting ridiculous fees out of everyone involved and intentionally slowing down the process. leads to projects underdelivering and going way over budget which just further sours the public on new infrastructure projects, of course then they seethe about traffic continuously getting worse and declining economic opportunities for their non-professional class kids.
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