“By contrast, the 2017 Second Avenue subway opening, with just three stations, took seventeen years.”
New York opened 28 subway stations in 1904, four and a half years after the first contract. A century later three stations took seventeen. Environmental review under NEPA and CEQA weighs every harm a project might cause and never the harm of not building it. The process meant to protect the climate now blocks the transit and power plants the climate needs.