> colossal failures of so many so expensive European projects
This is simply fiction.
EU is mules better than USA at building infrastructure, cost per mile is 4 to 9 times lower for bridges / roads / tonnels than USA/UK. The financial times has a report on it.
The EU is / has built like 5 record holding tonnels in the past five years, the base tonnel in the alps, the underwater tonnel in scandinavia, etc.
Each of those projects is in the same sort of scale as the much beleaguered Californian rail, or HighSpeed 2 in UK, and is completed 4 times faster and cheaper per mile, with less political in-fighting and sabotage.
I would argue that civil infrastructure is actually one of the most important things for an average joe
This is simply fiction.
EU is mules better than USA at building infrastructure, cost per mile is 4 to 9 times lower for bridges / roads / tonnels than USA/UK. The financial times has a report on it.
The EU is / has built like 5 record holding tonnels in the past five years, the base tonnel in the alps, the underwater tonnel in scandinavia, etc.
Each of those projects is in the same sort of scale as the much beleaguered Californian rail, or HighSpeed 2 in UK, and is completed 4 times faster and cheaper per mile, with less political in-fighting and sabotage.
I would argue that civil infrastructure is actually one of the most important things for an average joe
https://youtu.be/kc29axOAzRs?si=8YBTIhKqM0jtOoIW
https://youtu.be/QiYvXKQksgI?si=41sQX-rYW38iW1x7
https://youtu.be/30foJiPUrBA?si=UTkoMR_ZlrVCnzkp