Costs have been rising and timelines lengthening to infuriating extremes for transit projects in the US. What’s causing this, and how can it be solved?

Getting Back on Track: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research...
Transit Costs Project: https://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/initi...
Vice Motherboard article on Citizen Voice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5j...

Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:46 The Scale of the Problem
4:17 Transit Neophytes
5:15 Soft Cost Explosion
6:53 Contingencies
11:43 Political Concessions
13:12 Summary So Far
15:53 Citizen Voice and CEQA
21:21 Caltrans
22:21 Solutions

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Any corrections or additions will be in a pinned comment. Thanks to Ethan Elkind and Alon Levy for their time and assistance!

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