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Replace the second avenue subway with any other major passenger rail line built in the US in the last ten years, look at the costs per mile of track laid, and see that this is not some unique geological issue with manhattan but a national issue with the ability to cheaply and quickly construct capital improvements.
That makes no sense. Most subways are built with cut and cover. The Second Avenue was only made possible with the very latest in tunneling technology. And that meant a path being dug carefully around multiple existing subways, lots of other infrastructure, and the relatively delicate foundations of old buildings. Furthermore, as I pointed out, the extreme impracticality of the Second Avenue subway was documented star…
Re: Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much
#271Again: Reading comprehension. Reread OPs comment again, he wasn't referring to some averages over all projects, he was telling you to take any project and you will see similar issues.