While there are many great individuals who are engineers and transportation professionals, I have found the internal dialogue of the profession to be stuck in a place of comfortable tension for a long time. There is comfort in the sense that those working on transportation projects have a degree of credibility and prestige earned during the highway-building era, privilege that is kept alive by established bureaucracies and large budgets. The tension comes from a growing realization that the golden age of massive engineering projects has passed, and what is left is an unfulfilled promise of
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