This is spot on, the only thing you forgot was ‘return on investment’ and ‘shareholder return’
Tthe old chestnut " cost benefit analysis", you know like the one they did on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. How many lanes would we build on the SYB these days?
just squabbling idiots called politicians!
And all the NIMBYs that come out of hibernation or a change in Govt.
An example is the excellent idea we had in Brisbane for the cross river tunnel. It was to included BUS and rail.
However, like a lot of other progressive engineering, as against political, thinking, it was "de-newmanised" by the present Govt. So we may get a tunnel with just rail.
The bus expansion has now to compete for routes and stops with other surface infrastructure..