Comment by inglor_cz

The Lower Thames Crossing project in the UK already generated 360000 pages of paper in the planing phase:

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/lower-thames-crossin...

The Works in Progress magazine says that, in comparison, environmental assessment for an extension of a line of the Madrid metro, had only 19 pages.

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-...

Granted, this is not completely the same, but 360 000 pages is a LOT. Most civilizational infrastructure around the world was built using orders of magnitude less bureaucracy.

That is overregulation for me, and I don't think this pushes any agenda except "360 000 pages for a tunnel is freaking insane".