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Preview: Why Can’t America Build Anything Anymore?
America built the transcontinental railroad in six years, Hoover Dam in five, and the Golden Gate Bridge in just over four. Today, major infrastructure projects can take decades and cost billions more than promised.
What changed?
From California's high-speed rail to New York's troubled subway expansions, we examine why building in America has become so expensive and complicated, what's really causing the delays, and why some projects still succeed.
Has America forgotten how to build, or have we made building unnecessarily difficult?
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