This kind of development takes place only when people have "vision," and develop a master plan. The US is so far behind in technology, infrastructure and development it's hard to say when, or if, it ever will catch up. A legacy has been squandered here. Some people have been giving away the store. Greed and graft are prime destroyers and punishment is light. Look at the Big Dig in Boston. What a disaster; I wouldn't drive in mid-town for any money. Shoddy workmanship, greed, graft and a slap on the wrist. No one seemed to get how pervasive this is. Good for the Arabs. We can't get rail and highways updated. Rail cars are falling of the tracks. We can't get more east/west corridors built. No money. The rails are owned by Canadian freight, for the most part. What went on here? Who sold the store? European trains and metros are an example. Ours stink. Literally. We can't even get them clean, much less modernized. Suljas are a symptom of the disease. They got caught. I'm not an economist or an engineer. I only read the papers. And travel. I can't reconcile this, somehow. God help us.
"How do you stand the constant cheeping?"