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Have you seen any breakdown of why it costs that much? It seems like an unfathomable amount.

• threeseed 7y ago
  Because the tunnel is going underneath the Sydney harbour: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/under-wraps-sydney-s-first-rail-tunnel-dug-beneath-harbour-20191121-p53cs3.html https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/under-wraps-sydney-s-fir...
• sansnomme 7y ago
  All sorts of reasons, but corruption (along-side organized crime) is a big issue in the construction industry. Imagine Oracle-style of service and business approach coupled with an npm-deep level of dependencies/middlemen whose palms need greasing and to have their cut of the project. Then on the other side you are boxed in by physics, thousands of regulations, zoning laws, complaints, city council, government bureaucracy.
  • mc3 7y ago
    "npm-deep" I love that phrase. anyone who suffers a dig around the node_modules folder knows the pain! Ugh! I also used Oracle in the early 2000's, I need hypnotherapy to get over that.