The biggest ,most bloated bureaucracy in the NY area ,the Port Authority is most responsible for the delay. And that's just one of the agencies involved . The Federal Transit Adm ,the State Dept. Transportation ,the MTA ,the Lower Manhattan Construction Command center ,City Hall ,all the First Responder agencies and their unions have all been complicit in the delay .

Isn't that every large city in America every day? You haven't shown where specifically it affects the reconstruction so basically it's simply your opinion.

It's the fact . Bureaucratic delays and red tape has been the hallmark of this project . It is not a problem with every city. The Sears Tower took 3 years to complete. The Santa Monica Freeway bridges took just 66 days to rebuild after the 1994 earthquake collapsed it .It takes mere months for us to put up sports arenas.

The only reason there is any movement now in the reconstruction is because people around here are sick of the bs .

Really ;it would take too much time to detail the garbage that has gone into this ,but it includes such absurdities as design competitions , politically correct museums and learning centers,arguments over rents , more design changes ad nauseum ,turf wars between the competing agencies... and on and on. Heck ;it took them 8 years to figure out how to best demolish the damaged Deutsche Bank building... and it still will not be down a decade after the attack . Meanwhile the cost of the demolition of this single building has ballooned from
$75 million to $202 million. Just to take down a building!

Suffice it to say that the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation was set up to centralize... to be an extra layer of bureaucracy ,to expidite the project ,and distribute $2 billion in funds for the project .Even the NY Slimes thinks it should be disbanded.

Meanwhile Mayor Bloomy pontificates about the right of America's Imam to build his victory mosque which no doubt will get the fast track .

Thank you Cats... I wish to thank all those who have served this country. Many condolences to the ones who died in the planes and in the Buildings.

God Bless my son. A military man who joined right after College and is making a career of it. Bless the parents whose sons and daughters, husbands and wives who made the ultimate sacrifice.