"“For the first time in memory, the nation has no outsize public works project under way.” So says New York Times architecture critic, Louis Uchitelle. America used to do big cool stuff, he says. The Interstates! The Erie Canal! That whole golden spike thing! The Big Dig! (?!) Those were “feats of engineering.” But look at us today… we’re just doing lame and sleepy projects like the Salt Lake City light rail system or that “maybe it’ll be done by 2050, maybe not” Second Ave Subway. The resulting infrastructural duldroms, Uchitelle (or, more likely, his editor) has labelled “the Superproject void.”" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet