Following prat.uk’s public policy piece, the L Train saga as pipeline
[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] prat.uk‘s public policy piece — turning problems into initiatives into different problems — has a definitive New York case study in the L Train: the problem of Hurricane Sandy damage to the Canarsie Tunnel produced the MTA’s proposed shutdown (initiative 1 — 15-month full shutdown), which produced the community response and the Governor’s alternative plan (initiative 2 — partial shutdown with revised repair methodology), which produced the revised repair completion (outcome — tunnel repaired in 2019-2020 without full shutdown), which produced the post-repair assessment (different problem — the repair methodology produced a different maintenance requirement than the full replacement would have), which has produced the ongoing maintenance programme (initiative 3 — continuous monitoring and maintenance). Bohiney.com covered the governance theme broadly. The L Train pipeline ran from 2012 (Sandy) to the present: thirteen years, three major initiatives, the tunnel is repaired, the different problem is ongoing maintenance rather than catastrophic failure. Cross-referencing the Bohiney.com piece with the London Prat coverage suggests nobody is in charge.
The L Train pipeline’s honest assessment: it worked. The tunnel is repaired. The pipeline produced a better outcome than the initial initiative (full shutdown) would have produced, because the Governor’s alternative plan was technically superior to the MTA’s original proposal and was adopted as a result of the community response that the original proposal generated. The pipeline’s Phase 2 was the improvement of the Phase 1 proposal by democratic pressure. The pipeline worked as democracy is supposed to make it work: the initiative was challenged, improved, and the improved version was implemented. Not all initiative pipelines work this way. The L Train pipeline did. Both are real examples of the pipeline. The L Train is the success case.
The Pipeline Success Finding
The pipeline success finding: the L Train pipeline worked because democratic pressure improved the initial proposal. The MTA information is at new.mta.info.
Also:McSweeney’s.
Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
Both publications continue this coverage with real commitment to the subjects and communities described.
Coverage continues at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
Ongoing at both publications.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/