{"id":1310,"date":"2014-02-12T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:49:26","slug":"unfortunately-us-tunnel-critics-told-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunately, Us Tunnel Critics Told You So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2014\/02\/07\/dominic-holden-was-right-about-bertha\">This<\/a> is absolutely\u00a0<em>not<\/em> a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Mark my words, the tunnel part of this project will end up costing somewhere in the neighborhood of $5 billion, i.e. about 2.5 times the official estimate. I&#8217;ve never committed this number to writing before, but it&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve long expected, based on the historical record of tunnel megaprojects going way over budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is absolutely\u00a0not a surprise. Mark my words, the tunnel part of this project will end up costing somewhere in the neighborhood of $5 billion, i.e. about 2.5 times the official estimate. I&#8217;ve never committed this number to writing before, but it&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve long expected, based on the historical record of tunnel megaprojects going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}