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Even with 100,000+ inhabitants at the time of construction, it seems to be tremendously expensive to build. At the same time, impressive engineering. For some r
by 11thEarlOfMar 6y ago
Even with 100,000+ inhabitants at the time of construction, it seems to be tremendously expensive to build. At the same time, impressive engineering. For some reason, I imagine maritime design engineers could achieve this most readily, given that it appears to be a 'first article'.
- Retric 6y agoThe practically non existent land use is a massive savings. It runs down a long valley which is extremely space constrained and mostly sits over the river. By comparison the largest cost of road networks in cities is opportunity cost. Something like 20% of the surface of NYC is roads, that’s hundreds of billions of dollars worth of land and massive amount of lost property taxes.
- m4rtink 6y agoIIRC the current form of Grand Central station in New York was built when they buried all the tracks leading to it underground, to free up for building what is now some of the most expensive real estate in the world.
- TylerE 6y agoYou're thinking of Penn Station, not Grand Central. Grand Central was always that way. Penn Station was originally above ground, and then rebuilt underground in the 60s, beneath Madison Square Garden, built at the same time. Grand Central has a fairly large and very ornate above-ground structure taking up half a city block.
- m4rtink 6y agoI mean the tracks leading to Grand Central, that were buried and built over: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal#Terminal_City https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal#Termi... (And it's all Internet knowledge, I've never been there.)
- guenthert 6y agoI'd think in Germany the share of public vs. private wealth is very different from USA, more so back then.