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Rescis | 2 years ago

Several hundred million dollars at best gets you a mile of subway in an American city: https://www.vox.com/22534714/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs...

Experimentation with alternatives is desperately needed.

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stuaxo|2 years ago

His whole thing for a while was how it was going to be cheaper to dig tunnels by using new techniques etc, that would equally apply to subways - but a feel like it was probably bullshit.

s1artibartfast|2 years ago

The new technology is smaller drills that make smaller tunnels.

They are electric and can start at street level and dig themselves down.