This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Infrastructure

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3 жыл бұрын

America is a land of constant progress. Sometimes it seems like there’s nothing we can’t accomplish. And then we try to build something...
In recent years, infrastructure projects have taken way too long and cost way more than they should. Boston’s "Big Dig, for example, took 15 years and cost more than 5x as much as projected. California’s High-Speed Rail was supposed to run between L.A. and San Francisco by 2020. Instead, some track nowhere near either city might be ready by 2027.
Why can’t America build quickly or cost effectively anymore? A well-intentioned regulatory law from the 1970s has a lot to do with it...
When the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) first took effect in the 1970s, the environmental impact analysis it required from builders before a project could begin would often run less than 10 pages. Today, the average is more than 600 pages.
Maybe delays and ballooning costs are worth it to protect the planet, right? Here’s the crazy part: NEPA doesn’t even guarantee that. In some cases, it’s actually making us less green.
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@dorjedriftwood2731 2 жыл бұрын

Your incredible... you make excellent points and you do so in a way anyone can understand and that will likely hit home for anyone regardless of political bent. I appreciate you keep it up.

@chefandmusician9170 Жыл бұрын

USA Canada needs 🚄🚅🚝

@gdaqian Жыл бұрын

One thing we all can be assured: computers did not make paperwork less burdensome.

@Limosethe Жыл бұрын

Less paperwork gets to be done due to computers

@dizzydemeter Жыл бұрын

I have to admit I have always wondered why construction projects take so long in the US compared to other countries I’ve lived in.

@terryken12 2 жыл бұрын

It's the bureaucratic bullshit that makes everything cost so much. To simply tear out a 4' section of sidewalk to repair a sewer line 18" underground I had to have a Masters license in plumbing, a city contractors license, be insured, pay the city $488 dollars for " engineering and have a plumbing inspection, a backfill and compaction inspection and a inspection of the grade and reinforcement steel before the concrete pour. It took longer to wade through bs than it took to make the repair. It was annoying and I charged accordingly. 🤣

@sweetfacelola5540 2 жыл бұрын

Smh and lmao!

@edwardmiessner6502 2 жыл бұрын

If only you could just slip a repair pipe in 🤔

@IdontKnow-wx8sq 2 жыл бұрын

So this nepa thing needs to be redesigned for our infrastructure to work like the old days

@qjtvaddict 2 жыл бұрын

It needs to be repealed

@mfblowfish4671 2 жыл бұрын

Sweet at those prices the 1.2 trillion “ Infrastructure bill” will probably only afford a couple highway rest areas! Thank god the government is doing such an outstanding job!

@Drunkenstupor 2 жыл бұрын

If we didnt give all these tax breaks and write offs to the Big Corporations and spending so much on the millitary we might have the actual money to keep our infrastructure up to date.

@chester4311 2 жыл бұрын

Thor Hilton, right on, and the work will be awarded to union contractors, take about 32 years to complete with all the work stoppages, and will come in at a few trillions over budget.

@bobowens3687 2 жыл бұрын

But think of all the gender studies programs in Pakistan that trillion dollar infrastructure bill will cover.ha,ha

@mr.rousseau.4655 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobowens3687 if I got my wish all of that crap would burn in a fire.

@moemarrara9529 2 жыл бұрын

How much of 1.2 til do you REALLY think will go to anything remotely close to infrastructure, today's Dems words have no meaning, every bills so call intent is the only thing that it won't do. NOT a joke . Most of the alphabet burocrap need to end not reduced .an the VERY few remaining need reduced & and legally regulated sanctioned oversight audited etc etc trash and limits on how long they can be around individuals I mean or would you say term limits

@deniseeugene1852 2 жыл бұрын

I am 65. In my youth if it was made in America it was considered of superior quality. If it was China made it was considered inferior quality.

@qjtvaddict 2 жыл бұрын

Not anymore China is the new America time to cry

@jeffwiggin4490 2 жыл бұрын

The paper work slows things down so that politicians can get paid off.

@jtlea77 2 жыл бұрын

ding ding ding

@qjtvaddict 2 жыл бұрын

Remove them

@noneofyourbusiness43 Жыл бұрын

probably has a lot to do with those hundreds of jobs with no identifiable responsibilities

@josephhoward4697 2 жыл бұрын

The whole system is tainted at every level. The folks at the bottom are paid too little, so they don’t care about doing their job right, but doing it just well enough to stay out of the unemployment line. Management doesn’t care about the plight of the bottom man, they get paid a lot of money and replacements aren’t that hard to find if someone quits. Contracted companies cut corners because they have no competition, legally secured income, and plenty of time to meet the basic requirements. Politicians get paid by upper management to approve higher price tags at our expense, and bureaucrats get stable jobs because of all of the paperwork. In other words, management doesn’t care, labor doesn’t care, owners don’t care, politicians don’t care, and bureaucrats don’t care. If nobody cares enough to get it done right, then how can anyone possibly be expected to take pride in it? How can anyone be expected to take pride in this great country if nothing is built right, nobody cares to build anything right, and nobody can afford anything of even halfway decent quality built right here in this country? This honestly sounds like we’re having a cultural crisis. Is this it? Is this really it? After all the things we have been through, is this really how our country is going to go out? How long do we have left?

@onicronprime118 Жыл бұрын

I'll just subcontract your complaints to the lowest bidder, they will respond to your complaints in no definite time. Makes you double think about making laws to get rid of laws. Yippie for the 21st amendment!

@zacharytracy3797 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think I’m gonna head out for Northern Europe before everything gets too screwed. Wish Y’all luck 🍀

@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL Жыл бұрын

A cultural crisis? Weird, I thought the Lamestream media told me that the Culture Wars were "far-right extremist propaganda". Sounds like we have some untra-nationalist, trump supporting, xenophobe, transphobes, islamaphobes sexists in tha country. Wanting to do the correct thing in the most effecient and superior manner? What a republican!

@josephhoward4697 Жыл бұрын

@@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL Having basic sense doesn’t make me a Republican. Don’t try to claim good values in the name of your political party. Progressives did that some time ago, claiming the notion of upward progress for themselves, and have become self-righteous and out of touch. As long as people like you do the same for the Republican Party, the same fate will befall them.

@joatmon101b 2 жыл бұрын

Left out a detail. Repairing an existing bridge while keeping it open for traffic is not nearly as easy as building a new bridge where there are no traffic concerns.

@edwardmiessner6502 2 жыл бұрын

Except they could have closed the bridge and the work would only have taken 180 days --- half a year. I used to estimate highway bridge maintenance projects and over half the cost was literally spent on traffic control.

@TheGarywilliams Жыл бұрын

John stossel did a report on a public funded renovation of a public bathroom in a public park. And a few miles away a brand new bathroom was built ground up by private party in a private owned park open to the public. The private one was done in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost what the renovation one did. And when he interviewed city officials about it ,no one had any answers.

@imadequate3376 Жыл бұрын

Its blatantly obvious. The company working at the public park stretched the job out and milked that prevailing wage as long as they absolutely could. That's theft of tax dollars in my opinion and should be criminalized. If you can't meet reasonable times and costs you shouldn't be hired.

@MrColbrot Жыл бұрын

@@imadequate3376 it’s just prevailing wage in general. Also, insurance and bonding requirements. The costs are exponential. In my experience, contractor don’t “milk” the time. But the cost of doing business, does go up dramatically on municipal work.

@jeffbybee5207 Жыл бұрын

Two other points the municipal job likely has more paperwork and people needed to cover things that make no difference and also the gov job paid union wages per the davis bacon act . And the pool of contractors is smaller either due to extra bonding requirements or minority and women owned business limitations in work offers

@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL Жыл бұрын

@@imadequate3376 shut up liberal

@javierpacheco8234 2 жыл бұрын

I always felt something was wrong with todays infrastructure now i see why, i can sense and feel the poor quality of structures.

@PenskePC17 2 жыл бұрын

I’m from Portsmouth NH and I was born in 1990, the Big Dig was a constant when I was growing up and going to Boston, when I actually looked it up to see what exactly it was I was just like”that’s it?”

@bikeguyhd1035 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It’s also well known that the corruption was so bad, stories of giant I-beams and other materials would get checked in at the entrance gate to the job site, then simple be driven out the back gate. Amazing. But the party of corruption was and still is in power there so…

@edwardmiessner6502 2 жыл бұрын

Originally it was supposed to connect North and South Stations allowing seamless train travel from North of Boston to South of Boston but the Federal Highway Administration said, "Nyet."

@danktankdragkings7117 Жыл бұрын

nuview were here this is my fifth or sixth video in a row and I have yet to find anything that isn't well-thought-out well-reasoned and put together very clean and succinctly I appreciate you guys

@patriciaschuster1371 2 жыл бұрын

Do not forget that bridge funding in Pennsylvania had been given away to fund the Pennsylvania State Police. In the meantime, one bridge collapsed with traffic on it. Other bridge project renewals put on hold. But we have the Pa. State Police.

@MrJoeagomez 2 жыл бұрын

Two words why projects take longer to get completed “job security” or “bad management”

@qjtvaddict 2 жыл бұрын

Bad management

@bcallahan3806 2 жыл бұрын

A great point. Government stinks at managing most everything. Even back in the late 1970's. Meals on wheels program could by food, cook and prepare it and deliver it . At a cost of less than $1 dollar per meal. ADMINISTRATION costs. Over $5 dollars per meal. Nothing has changed except administration cost increases have far exceeded actual material and labor costs. This as well as bickering between people about bridge "styles" etc. Have only added to delays and expenses in major infrastructure projects. It's what happens when you have politicians trying to play engineer.

@qjtvaddict 2 жыл бұрын

Laughing in Chinese politics

@tonycarrozza5274 2 жыл бұрын

The reason is poor management, indeed - but more specifically - Government and the people who vote them in. Let’s face it, unfortunately for America, we are getting all the government we pay for.

@openlink9958 2 жыл бұрын

what is the political party who rally around more government spending again?

@edwardmiessner6502 2 жыл бұрын

@@openlink9958 pick one and you're correct. The difference is in what they spend the money on.

@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL Жыл бұрын

@@openlink9958 the liberal/democrat/Nancy Pelosi/Joe Biden party. Who else supports big government because the "hurr durr corporations can't make money! Making moneys is illegal!!1!1!1!1"

@martinphillips4607 2 жыл бұрын

You ask , why does it take so to build some projects here in the states . The reason it doesn’t it call corruption, with the Technology we have today why else .

@UnclePengy 3 жыл бұрын

But wait, we've got a bipartisan infrastructure bill on the way! That'll fix it, right? ... right?

@sylviamorgan831 2 жыл бұрын

It takes so long now because it’s about money

@markbantz9699 2 жыл бұрын

Germany has strict environmental regulations for all projects(ask tesla). It’s more incompetence than regulations.

@charlesrandall1172 2 жыл бұрын

The biggest problem today is government and big unions. I am not anti government or anti union I am simply just anti corruption 😤

@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL Жыл бұрын

So you're a "I believe in nothing" person? Cool, another softcore liberal who we all know where his vote goes. Joe Biden and the Nancy Pelosi party

@BlueGoblin1 2 жыл бұрын

It is not bad managment it is called corruption.

@bobsingh5521 2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@amadoleon8981 2 жыл бұрын

What happen will become lazy and cheap and greedy starting with the government

@SexyLilSeaOtter 2 жыл бұрын

They have been working on an on ramp/off ramp and lane expansion on the stretch of I5 where fife and Tacoma meet for the last 15-20 years. They make way to much money from handing out tickets there because they dropped the speed limit to 50mph “to help keep the construction workers safe” even though the crews only work on it 4/12 months of the year they keep the speed limit lowered even when no one is going o be working there for another year almost.

@rtsiii5404 Жыл бұрын

Yeah…that’s unfortunately pretty typical. Ticket money is like crack. I worked in construction for awhile both on the job and in the office, and the environmental regs are insane. And then you’ve got the environmentalists who bring lawsuits and years go by with nobody making money, no on-site jobs, and INSANE cost overruns, all at taxpayer expense. A lot of companies take advantage, and, if I’m being honest, the process of winning government construction bids is often corrupt as all hell. It’s strange, they minutely regulate some things, and almost completely ignore others.

@pliskenmovie Жыл бұрын

Yeah, That section of I5 has seemingly been under construction ever since I arrived in the Seattle area in 2006.

@jhonjhonjhonson7773 Жыл бұрын

In Washington state on I-5 the freeway in Tacoma has been worked on for 22 years I was just finished about a month ago and looks like very little was done on it

@eddiekulp1241 2 жыл бұрын

1,000 dollar a day to work on a tunnel job ? workers didn't get that

@flimflannery3192 Жыл бұрын

It's called the COST including overhead, regulatory requirements, mandated insurance, taxes, benefits, etc.

@gdaqian Жыл бұрын

Another point: we no longer have builders but financiers.

@cheechalker8430 2 жыл бұрын

Upvote for that title alone - hilarious!

@arielle-cheriepaterson7851 Жыл бұрын

Great video

@empirestate8791 3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of sf, where efficient and environmentally friendly high density housing (built on a former parking lot) is delayed and struck down, and people are forced to commute dozens of miles a day from their homes built on reclaimed marshes ...

@flimflannery3192 Жыл бұрын

How about you living in that environment and see how friendly it is?

@flyswryan 2 жыл бұрын

Get rid of good old American greed and we can have nice things again...

@stephenp.5377 Жыл бұрын

Or good old American graft.

@Idontwannahandl Жыл бұрын

That's what you got out of the video? Tell me you didn't watch it without saying you didn't watch it

@flyswryan Жыл бұрын

Cost plus contracts, bureaucrats dragging their feet for job security, but mostly politicians employing dilatory tactics until everything is properly positioned for the largest payoff for their campaign contributors. That's what I got from listening between the lines. There's also safety regulations and insurance requirements that add significantly to costs...and over-engineering everything to mitigate future lawsuits from careless people who can't take responsibility for their own ignorance/negligence, represented by feckless PI attorneys. We used to just design & build projects, and everyone involved understood and accepted the risks involved. Greed killed that.

@zjaz8000 2 жыл бұрын

Over reach indeed, I’d say. Too many chiefs nowadays… at others’ expense.

@johnfoltz8183 2 жыл бұрын

First they talk how the project could impact the local area, homes and schools. Then they have to consider how it will impact wetlands and the environment where it is supposed to go. Then the design of the project goes through many changes before a final decision is decided.

@edwardmiessner6502 2 жыл бұрын

The problem is with both government and private enterprise: I N C R E A S E D B U R E A U C R A C Y

@joan3891 2 жыл бұрын

Environmental and union bureaucracy leads no where and flushes money down the toilet.

@johncooper7663 2 жыл бұрын

Those pesky unions......actually creating a middle class instead of ceo's getting to play with space rockets.

@JSAFIXIT Жыл бұрын

This even goes down to building a house. In order for me to build a house I need to buy land, I need to have it surveyed, I'm out of town so I need tests done for a well and septic. After that you get a permit for each. Then you need an erosion control assessment, and plan. Then you need to have detailed plans for the house, then you get your building permit. The house is inspected at many points during the build. After it's done, it's inspected again. If it passes you finally get an occupancy permit. All of this is expensive. Just to get to the point of starting construction I'm looking at 25k usd. That's IF everything goes smoothly.

@crosslink1493 7 ай бұрын

Typically, 18 months to 2 years to get all that done and ready for move-in. That's as long as the Empire State Building per this video.

@Urbanconservative 2 жыл бұрын

This video was fire

@johnfortes2171 2 жыл бұрын

Ignorance and greed have run America into the ground!

@skunksville 2 жыл бұрын

Conclusion that it is bad management. Could it be that better management might deal with regulation more intelligently? I know the company I work for has management issues. It is like they DONT want to delegate any responsibility or have people work together. No one wants to admit that they don’t know everything. People seem to be played against each other. Also, there is the compensation issue. For any given job, there seems to be a pay level, below which the person stops caring about the company. If the company does not value them, why should they work hard for the company. Compensation is how people know that a business values them.

@bobsingh5521 2 жыл бұрын

It’s lobbying at Washington DC that ensures the bigs get all the work and the smalls get the crumbs

@Idontwannahandl Жыл бұрын

Bad management? Not the five year 600 page process forced onto the businesses by the government? Allllrighty then lady... The entire construction industry has bad management!!! Couldn't be that a factor they all share is what's causing issues, it just makes more sense that nobody in construction knows how to manage projects and delegate... This was sarcasm, in case it goes over your head

@federicozimerman8167 2 жыл бұрын

You can add to the list of incredibly expensive projects the East Side Access in New York City.

@winstonlane708 2 жыл бұрын

To many hands 🙌🏻 need to be greased … typical.

@kevinskiles2033 2 жыл бұрын

Not to seem cynical, but I suspect that this add was financed by corporations that will make a lot more money if regulations are weakened, and most of the money will go to shareholders. not the workers

@doyourbest7655 2 жыл бұрын

You would think so, however I was a farmer and the biggest waste of my time was to deal with nonsensical government that added nothing to getting the food out the farm gate. So there is some level of truth, but think of this, if basically one guy can run a farm and he is taken off that task, timely projects do not get done.. I could not substitute someone else in to deal with the reports, but I did where I could however some had the negative effect that if not correct or timely your business is at risk,and that is the whole game. I hated government non-support and push down.

@nancyfahey7518 2 жыл бұрын

Kevin, I believe this is it.

@makingitlookeasy 2 жыл бұрын

The workers are contracted at a set wage and are an expense. If less regulations lead to greater profits they should go to shareholders who assumed the risk.

@rtsiii5404 Жыл бұрын

@@makingitlookeasy I agree. Regulations don’t usually end up helping anybody, especially not employees who have a higher risk of losing their jobs to cost cutting if projects don’t meet certain profit projections. I also have no problem with shareholders making more money due to less regulation, because that means the companies are healthy, which almost always means growth I.e. more jobs, better jobs, better benefits to attract better employees, etc. I’m just not sure how somebody could think a company that’s not making money could be good for it’s employees…

@bkidd942 Жыл бұрын

The profit money goes to those who risk capital at potential loss to obtain it. Those who agree to a regular paycheck in exchange for labor get…the greater certainty of a regular paycheck. Nothing ventured, no fruits of the venture.

@smelltheglove2038 2 жыл бұрын

Regulation and trade union bosses and inflated government contracts.

@timmyrtue7252 2 жыл бұрын

You hit the nail on the head! Unions are a huge part of this problem. And Democrats cave in cause that’s their bread and butter. Just like Biden said in his pro infrastructure plan this will be good union jobs. This idealism is what destroyed the USSR. Their socialist government caved in to their unions for decades till the unions started to bankrupt the government. I used that example only because Labor Unions should never have that kind of power. They are responsible for the Majority of The state of California’s financial problems.

@jonshaffer6552 Жыл бұрын

I can I can sum it up in one word lawyers

@christiankruse1970 Жыл бұрын

Would love to hear more about what makes for expensive bad management. True of both private and public?

@donquique1 2 жыл бұрын

Red tape. I design infrastructure. Took me 1 year to design a sidewalk including time to get it approved. The contractor is delayed 6 months. Seriously, a freaking sidewalk.....

@tjingrassia2997 3 жыл бұрын

Huzzah for Art List music!

@qjtvaddict 2 жыл бұрын

Time to abolish NEPA

@josephtraficanti689 Жыл бұрын

The answer is complexity. We have a great deal of capability that has been created and added since 1950. Each time you add another system to the package there are many more points of intersection that must be taken into account.

@rikijett310 Жыл бұрын

To really screw things up, just add government oversight.

@erics8757 Жыл бұрын

You forgot to factor in the millions ++ that goes to line the pockets of politicians and bureaucrats. Just one of the ways they go into a job that pays 170,000 a year and walk away multi millionaires.

@MaximLedoux 3 жыл бұрын

Great video except for the use of the metric system.

@dizzydemeter Жыл бұрын

Did that man just scratch his hard hat…? 😹

@empirestate8791 3 жыл бұрын

Thay should at least waive most requirements and regulations for infrastructure projects which benefit society as a whole!

@robertcleary1950 2 жыл бұрын

Why wave regulations so it can built to crumble

@callowaymotorcompany 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah lets remove regulations for vital infrastructure.....and have our shit falling apart left and right, killing thousands of people. I don't want to drive on some corner cut trash bridge or take some train riding on zero-regulation wet cardboard tracks.

@qjtvaddict 2 жыл бұрын

@@callowaymotorcompany it’s already falling apart

@cherylbradley8797 2 жыл бұрын

Not cheap because all the builders get together and fix the prices. And, how many people died building those old bridges.

@michaellange6598 2 жыл бұрын

Not one on golden gate

@johnnyquest9519 2 жыл бұрын

There is an intersection in New Jersey that has been built and rebuilt for over 20 years. A part of it recently fell apart. It’s all union labor. So that explains it

@robertewalt7789 Жыл бұрын

Which NJ intersection?

@jorgebayarea Жыл бұрын

I expecting “America” The Continent. But it’s Kite & Key Media so no debate

@beaulabreche6110 2 жыл бұрын

I got ocean front property, in Arizona for sale.

@billhobartclairvoyantmedium 2 жыл бұрын

It’s all a scam…it’s about the companies making more money

@StonedNT Жыл бұрын

The longer it takes to build the more money you can bilk from the government.

@badreality2 Жыл бұрын

So, how will any of this be changed. Please do not tell me, "Vote for a person who wants to change regulation!" That does not do a person good, when a representative is not liable for what they are voted in for.

@walterscogginsakathesilver6246 2 жыл бұрын

The ugly truth. Our infrastructure is failing at best.

@therealallpro Жыл бұрын

OK, but why do we have "bad management" and why do other countries do not?

@iheartmydog6875 Жыл бұрын

Government ruins everything.

@scottsquires6186 Жыл бұрын

Layers and engineers over half the money is spent on paper before the actual project is stArted

@robertortiz-wilson1588 5 ай бұрын

Truth

@starbrand3726 Жыл бұрын

I think that the statement that infrastructure of the past was built better and stronger is false, or at least unfair. The Brooklyn bridge took 14 years to construct and 27 men died trying to build it. People in the past didn't travel as much, populations we're smaller as well. America could build smaller bridges that could handle the traffic patterns of that era. But with today's high speed, high volume, those little bridges just won't do.

@Limosethe Жыл бұрын

The reason infrastructure keeps crumbling over and over again, is because of cars. The constant stresses placed upon these bridges from the weight of sometimes litteral millions of automobiles throughout their lifetime adds up to bridges which are as structurally sound as cookies covering this country.

@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL Жыл бұрын

So cars are responsible, but not semi-trucks or other large vehicles? Nothing to do with weather either? Hey everyone, Northern Screams is a genius; if we get rid of cars we will have better roads! Problem solved! Wow you are an idiot

@Limosethe Жыл бұрын

@@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL Ohh boy 😂 "So cars are responsible but not" - Nope. Never claimed that. Of course trucks play a large role in the crumbling of global, (but mostly american infrastructure) - as trains are superior to them in every single way for the majority of applications. "Nothing to do with the weather?"- You do realize that sidewalks last on average far longer than roads, right? So do bicycle lanes and roads in country's where the majority of people do not get around in cars and the majority of goods are shipped via rail. (Mostly in Europe, but also every single developed Nation outside of North America) Also, how do you make rain and snow out to be harder on the surface of a road then a litteral lifetime of compression from the weight of millions of cars (which on average weigh 2 tons each) or millions of trucks (averaging 15-20 tons each.) "Hey everyone"- If I make a proposition or statement that is true, and can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt; thoroughly backed by reality and numerous valid arguments.... There are probably numerous terms that it can be reffered to that is more accurate than "GENIUS" or whatever buzz words you want to make of it, that I cannot be bothered to think of. However, if you are the type of person who sticks to beliefs no matter the argument laid out before you, than the average term that can be used to describe you tend to take on a whole other type of connotation usually; as a result of being every single argument in favor of car dependency or the car as the end-all-be-all of transportation being exhaustively, tediously debunked thoroughly. "If we get rid of cars we will have better roads!" - Yes, unironnically. I also dare you to be the first to debunk such a statement with a factually informed valid counter argument. "Wow you are an idiot" - Haha, man you are one funny caricature of an intellectual.

@makingitlookeasy 2 жыл бұрын

Minutes into video I'll say unions happened.

@hookedinfloridafishing2561 2 жыл бұрын

i think k drove over that many many many times

@teresabenson3385 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, so sad.

@nancyfahey7518 2 жыл бұрын

This is why I'm not excited by the infrastructure bill. Much needed but too many hands in the cookie jar. Do you think Buttigug can handle the changes needed? Maybe we need to hire international management.

@annmariemichael1928 2 жыл бұрын

I shall explain. My husband is a phenomenal woodworker who has been very successful as a tradesman . In the last 10 yrs there has been a thought of "I wanna be a gamer or do tech " ok Who did he train? Nobody new, very fee youngins. Now he won't train anyone cause nobody wants to toke lumber or do the nasty jobs. Nobody wants to apprentice, they want top dollar for being STUPID. This is what happens when you don't invest in your children at school with TRADES

@poohbeartube 2 жыл бұрын

I agree. One of my friends owns a pattern business which at one time had over 50 union employees. People would rather have cheap than quality regardless of planned obsolescence.

@LZH13067 Жыл бұрын

I worked in my state's department of ed and all of my coworkers other than support staff, were ex teachers. A LOT of the women had no children by choice and quite a few of the men were gay. The gay ones were ALWAYS in a supervisory or above position. Things are starting to make a little more sense. We aren't talking a liberal state either...even though a Dem currently adorns our state Capitol.

@whitewiz222 Жыл бұрын

that background “music” 🙉

@sardonyxsky Жыл бұрын

good vid, but the music is so annoying ... struggled to keep listening.

@jaewok5G Жыл бұрын

c'mon, we all know exactly why this has happened.

@mikdaley 3 жыл бұрын

Shorter, Davis-Bacon & unions.

@marvwatkins7029 2 жыл бұрын

Nasal voiced.

@TommyTom21 2 жыл бұрын

And?

@sardonyxsky Жыл бұрын

its bcuz the developers themselves are in bed with the gov

@jimmungai1938 Жыл бұрын

When it comes down to desalination know what I’m proposing would not solve all of the water problems in California but it would help when carrier enterprise was decommissioned I would use it to produce lots of fresh water which can produce thousands and thousands of gallons every day and at the same time producing electricity know if we took some of these old navy ships and did that we could greatly reduce the amount of water we need to use to generate electricity from the Hoover dam one aircraft carrier like carrier enterprise could probably power a third of Los Angeles maybe a quarter of Los Angeles if that happened wouldn’t that be great and at the same time when you got this thing parked out to see you can turn it into a jail also killed how many birds with one stone this is Jim mungai from kennerdell Pennsylvania😅

@jakejackson6730 Жыл бұрын

The and University's are not teaching anymore.

@DBSSTEELER Жыл бұрын

Graft grift and bureaucracy is the reason why.

@mikemccabe6258 3 жыл бұрын

We build plenty of infrastructure in Florida without red tape

@qjtvaddict 2 жыл бұрын

That explains brightline

@douglashurd8652 2 жыл бұрын

Fla definitely keepin up with da Jones's .

@rodneywhite4962 2 жыл бұрын

Permits

@handimanjay6642 2 жыл бұрын

Two words, union labor. Why hire non-union small business contractors that can do the same job for as low as 1/3 of the starting price when unions will lock into contracts that they can drag their butts on finishing knowing they can demand 2,3, or 4 times their original bid and take many more years to finish. They’ll take big chunks of those added profits and funnel it back into democrat coffers that will mandate union labor for all civil engineering jobs.

@thawhiteazn Жыл бұрын

If labor unions were the cause you’d think that over the last 50 years we would have improved construction times since labor union participation is at historical lows.

@qjtvaddict Жыл бұрын

@@thawhiteazn exactly

@columbiariverpussycat3769 Жыл бұрын

The answer? Tartarians...

@tobinwerner1564 2 жыл бұрын

Greed is what happened

@KbB-kz9qp Жыл бұрын

The music is irritating

@judysuber4262 2 жыл бұрын

Because in Boston they Milk any job.prolong so everyone and their sister can buy a house cash

@danielgeorgezlateff2036 Жыл бұрын

Go away mom

@TheMayhem16 Жыл бұрын

Unions

@StormTrysail 2 жыл бұрын

This video is grossly misleading. These great structures were built with no traffic or trains on them. Society will not tolerate closures of major structures so we do stage construction and this adds years to the project. The environmental concerns only delay the start of the project.

@poohbeartube 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, anyone who's ever constructed anything requiring significant effort knows that it's much easier to do new construction than to improve/modify/upgrade/reinforce an existing project.

@qjtvaddict 2 жыл бұрын

@@poohbeartube then build replacement infrastructure