On November 13, The Washington Post reported on the new plan of the Federal Railway Administration—a unit of the U.S. Department of Transportation—to remodel Union Station, the Amtrak rail and mass-transit hub serving Washington, D.C. The cost would be $10 billion, the Post said, and, oh, by the way, the projected finish date is 2040. As in, 18 years from now. And, of course, that target date could slip. “Much of the timetable is unclear,” the Post warned its readers. “The federal environmental review of the project, which began in 2015, is at least three years behind schedule.”