What does a missed train, a cold beer, and a bureaucratic form have in common? The lost decade of I-676.

This episode of The Reflective Urbanist unpacks how a simple lapse in judgment—and the inflexible gears of Weberian bureaucracy—delayed a major highway project for ten years. From Philadelphia to South Jersey and from sociology to spiral-bound proposal fails, it's a story about process, power, and the very human limits of rational systems.

Episode Music: Miami 1987 by Hey Pluto!

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