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No, the reason I don't think these kinds of projects could be realised under an anarchist setup, one where it's some kind of federation of local organisations, is nothing to do with "the elimination of leadership or authority derived from expertise".Yes, and (in some case seemingly wanton) misunderstandings about how most anarchists actually see this process are at the heart of quite a lot of the confusion. Asking "how would you do a transport megaproject" for example seems to consider it from a perspective where a scrappy bunch of random anarchos with no expertise are suddenly confronted with coordinating a major urban planning operation. Which ironically is what actually happens today via MPs with no expertise and corpo boards whose interest in social functionality is way down the list. If you look at the history of London transport "efficient" really isn't the word that comes to mind - and the Tube is broadly considered one of the best of its kind. The flattening of hierarchy doesn't mean the elimination of leadership or authority derived from expertise, it simply means the elimination of assumed control based on ownership.
It's to do with competing interests and larger scales. The oversight has to be provided by someone/something who is promoting the interests of the larger scale system, which will often be contrary to local interests. So they have to have some kind of authority to over-rule.