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What do you mean? What would give foreign companies an advantage? If a transit construction project can be done at lower cost, isn't that a good thing, for the
by dnhz 6y ago
What do you mean? What would give foreign companies an advantage? If a transit construction project can be done at lower cost, isn't that a good thing, for the local government and for riders? And construction is something that hires local workers anyway.
- brutusborn 6y agoIf the foreign companies can bid lower and with faster schedule, then they have an advantage to win the contracts over US firms
- bobthepanda 6y agoForeign firms do bid, just not with lower costs or faster schedules. Skanska from Sweden is in charge of NYC's East Side Access, which was originally forecasted to be completed in 2007 at a cost of $4B, and has morphed into the world's most expensive per-mile rail project at $12B with a completion date in the 2020s.