The tradie in me is all for a bit of "close enough good enough", but I'm with
@Haakon on the quality of public infrastructure.
If the things were built to a reasonable price I could live with it, but when we spend gazzillions of dollars designing/engineering/building such things and they're still shite in appearance, structural design and construction quality it's really hard to justify. Especially when Germany/Japan etc... can get the same things done to a better standard in a tiny fraction of the time (I have NFI how the costs compare though).