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Is your statement that you don’t think the country could technological complete the NYC subway (barring any bureaucracy challenges)?

• RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
  I think the bureaucracy challenges including the various environmental challenges would blow up the time and cost so much that it would be infeasible. There is also the issue that we have not done such a big infrastructure project in a long time, so there would be a learning curve again.
  • Dwolb 6y ago
    It’s an interesting claim but not really factual or able to be proven/disproven unless we were to complete the project ourselves :). My own opinion is we could (in this situation let’s just pretend to bureaucracy) build the entirety of the NYC subway. My main reasoning is a) we have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to build underground [1] and b) we have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to build trains [2]. Now a subway is probably harder because you need to combine the two things and there are probably complications to figure out how to build under a city, but I don’t know any further knowledge on the topic. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail