EPIC FAILS ENGINEERING

摘要

If God went to a local community board meeting and presented a plan to build the Garden of Eden," says a wry Sam Schwartz, New York City Dept. of Transportation's former first deputy commissioner, "people would protest the location, the design and how they're going to treat the serpent." Is public suspicion justified? In his book "Megaprojects and Risk," Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg states, "As many more and much larger infrastructure projects are being proposed and built around the world, it is becoming clear that many such projects have strikingly poor performance records in terms of economy, environment and public support."