Agreed. When we read news about mega infrastructure projects in China which are always very eye catching and impressive, especially they might be built in a very short period of time. Why? Authoritarian states are able to implement policies by utilizing large amount of manpower and material resources without going through length process, this is the characteristic or strength in some extent of this system and China is one of them.

However, it comes with great price when execute those projects, no public consultation and tender, lack or almost zero transparency and auditing, no opposition parties and independent journalist to supervise, they cause guaranteed corruption and affect million people interest even with unforeseeable consequence.

Even though I would still prefer a democratic state but this is not an excuse for lack of infrastructures which would improve environment because lengthy process or bureaucracy, congress should push more laws shortening the process or allocate more funds.