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>>1659957 said, the problem will never be performance; if completed it will run as well as their Japanese or Chinese counterparts. If.
The project will be delayed for decades in the design phase as every interest group within 50 miles of the track runs through their complaints. An environmental group will inevitably find that a threatened local animal population will be in danger and insist on costly and time-demanding redesigns. The A&E firms will demand additional fees to redesign the project. There will be substantial legal challenges
During construction, these problems will still occur; the local, state or federal government will change administrations at some point in this delayed process and demand changes to satisfy their party politics.
The project will be over budget and far behind schedule but it will be completed, and it will actually work pretty well for the technology it was made for. But the cost savings it promises will never be delivered, because the state transport authority will take over, and the public union employees will run up massive and undue overtime costs such that operations will always exceed the operation budget. Each new governor will attempt to fix this, but faced with the possibility of fighting the transit union will resort simply to grumbling. State, local and federal funds will be raised to keep the system up-to-date, but will be diverted to other transit pet projects (like the governor opening a brand new station to a local village that voted for him) until the system is either obsolescent or close to breaking down.
