{"id":701388,"date":"2021-09-08T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=701388"},"modified":"2021-09-08T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:32:15","slug":"megaprojects-and-the-need-for-speed-how-political-indecision-affects-timelines-of-large-infrastructure-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=701388","title":{"rendered":"Megaprojects and the &#039;need for speed&#039;: How political indecision affects timelines of large infrastructure investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building a new transit line or a highway almost always takes longer than initially planned. A new study suggests that the biggest contributor to such delays isn&#8217;t necessarily the design, planning or even construction phases. Instead, it&#8217;s the time required for local or provincial authorities to decide what exactly they want to build.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-09-megaprojects-political-indecision-affects-timelines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Megaprojects and the &#8216;need for speed&#8217;: How political indecision affects timelines of large infrastructure investments<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a new transit line or a highway almost always takes longer than initially planned. A new study suggests that the biggest contributor to such delays isn&#8217;t necessarily the design,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}