• Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    American planners: we wanted to build 3 new bus lines but we were only given $3 and a mandate to give it contract it out to the mayor’s cousin’s anti-homeless company that has 50% cop employees.

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      $3

      “The design and prototyping was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation […] Each prototype came to about $10,000 including design, materials and engineering, says Odbert, but the idea is that the cost for each shade would drop to about $2,000 if mass produced.”

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        Believe it or not those are kinds of average numbers for street furniture. Shit is pointlessly expensive due to contracting and a lack of central planning.

        And the scale of what is needed to really do the job is hundreds of thousands to millions.