@s2208 It's all construction contract laundering. Some politician or local authority is taking a hefty sum off the top of the budget for those projects which is why they never end and will never end until they're dead or arrested.

Classic memory holed story here, today.com/news/toronto-park-stairs-estimate-65k-man-builds-them-550-t114154, is a good example of just how ridiculous and rampant this grift is. It just came up on the senate that the Air Force is paying $64,000 per little baggy of $5.00 metal components or something.