USA Today: "Many of the principles the Trump administration is embracing were articulated in a report titled Two Years not Ten Years issued in 2015 by a non-partisan group called the Common Good.
Its chairman, Philip K. Howard, used the raising of the Bayonne Bridge that connects Staten Island with New Jersey as a classic example of government bureaucracy run amok.
The project required 47 permits from 19 different federal, state, and local agencies, he told lawmakers. It took six months to pick the lead agency for environmental review and another year to agree on the scope of review even though the construction "had virtually no environmental impact" because it used the same right of way and foundations as the old bridge, he said. The final environmental assessment ran 10,000 pages, with another 10,000 pages of appendices."
