re: Trump tweets about proposed NYC seawall

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you do know these projects kicked off weeks after sandy happened. Every major US firm has their hand in the pot.

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The planning and some smaller projects happened soon after Sandy. This is a huge proposed project.

Anybody who is proposing a flood protection project greater than $500 million and funded by tax dollars should provide an easily accessible, laymen's terms single sheet summary cost benefit analysis that the public can read and digest. And it should clearly explain what it does not do... such as does this project solve the problem of just storm surge or storm surge with rainfall?

And then they should talk about how the design will be bid - nothing should be done in secret.

Instead we have huge engineering firms gaming the system years in advance with non-profit organizations they control so they can get a big piece of the pie.

I have been a part of some of these large project pursuits. The potential for shady dealings is high. Don't expect a neutral third party opinion from any of the engineers at these firms when hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake for themselves.