Which is the best summary of: "The city's transport plan was ambitious, well funded, and quietly shelved within a year."?
The sentence says it was well funded and still got shelved. So money was not the problem — something else was. "Quietly" hints it was dropped without explanation.
Q10Vocabulary
In academic writing, albeit most nearly means:
Albeit introduces a concession — "a useful result, albeit a small one" means "although it was small". It behaves like "although", not like a cause or a consequence.