"Lipkin, who also wrote a study on the challenges of doing megaprojects in the U.S., broke down the six things the state must get right the next time it tries to build a large project. The first one was something the California High-Speed Rail project actually did get right, relatively speaking, and that's the branding--the message of what the state is trying to do."
"To give counter examples, lots of big projects have been on the books for decades only to get cancelled, such as the ' access to the region's core,' a project to build new tunnels under New York's Hudson River, which was cancelled in 2010. He also cited the 2013 Columbia River Crossing between Oregon and Washington, which was also cancelled. "The most famous one is the Cincinnati subway built in 1928," he added."
If a state goes more than a century without building major infrastructure, it may lose core capability for such projects. California has built 119 miles of high-speed rail guideway in the Central Valley, the largest new U.S. rail line since the Model T era. The high-speed rail bond passed in 2008 with 53 percent of the vote and has persisted through multiple federal and state administrations despite harsh press. The project advanced Caltrain electrification and is preparing Central Valley track laying. Six critical factors must be addressed for future megaproject success; the first is clear, consistent branding and messaging.
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