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Bill Lovotti's avatar

Bravo! Fantastic work. It’s remarkable what can be achieved when you have slow but steady progress for over 100 years.

I’d be interested to learn more about how incremental improvements like grade separations and track improvements get funded. Are these budgeted out of a general improvement fund, which is relatively consistent over time?

Reflecting on your comment contrasting against Anglo-sphere project planning, I suspect it’s better to have a smaller but long-running, predictable budget than “surprise” big-bang funding.

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David's avatar

This is an incredible essay - I love the extremely detailed classification of different types of projects, along with numerous examples. This must have been an enormous amount of work to put together. This is really valuable work, to document all this history in a form that may be more legible to English-speaking planners and policy-makers.

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