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		1024core on Nov 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The new Paris métro $39B for all that? 120+ new miles of tracks? Here in SF it cost us $2B to lay 1.7mi of tracks and that too took many years. :cry:

thebigman433 on Nov 26, 2023 [–]

San Jose NIMBYs are now going to drive costs to >2billion/mile with their rejection of cut and cover.

Now VTA is spending 75million dollars on a massive tunnel boring machine, for a project that should cost less than half of what it does

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