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Originally, the cost of the complete AlpTransit project (of which the Gotthard is part of) was estimated to be about 14.5 billion Swiss Francs (CHF), in 1998. I
by piquadrat 11y ago
Originally, the cost of the complete AlpTransit project (of which the Gotthard is part of) was estimated to be about 14.5 billion Swiss Francs (CHF), in 1998. It ended up costing about 18.7 billion CHF, so quite a bit more. The whole project changed quite a bit in the mean time, though (e.g. added security and environmental measures).
source (in German): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Eisenbahn-Alpentransversale#Gesamtkosten https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Eisenbahn-Alpentransversa...
- Swizec 11y agoThat's only 30% over budget. Coming from a country where civil projects are often used to "vanish" money, I am very impressed. Also coming from software engineering. 30% over budget is just impressive. I would love to be capable of such accurate planning.