With this new delay, it will take the city as much time to build the flyover as it took to construct the Channel Tunnel, or the “Chunnel,” which is the underwater passageway connecting England and France. That project was hailed as one of the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World” by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

“It’s all driven by political survival and political expediency, so there is no long-term planning. There’s no attempt to really make decisions that put you at risk, because everything is subordinated to the political process, and everything is subordinated to the political objective, which is to maintain survival.”