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Nobody is doing anything out in suburbia like: Boston's Big Dig ($20,000,000,000) Boston's Deer Island sewage plant ($3,800,000,000) London's Crossrail (
by souprock 6y ago
Nobody is doing anything out in suburbia like:
Boston's Big Dig ($20,000,000,000)
Boston's Deer Island sewage plant ($3,800,000,000)
London's Crossrail (£20,000,000,000)
San Francisco's Central Subway ($1,600,000,000)
Seattle's SR 99 tunnel ($3,300,000,000)
New York's Second Avenue Subway ($20,000,000,000)
Checking the first against population, that comes to $28,877 per person. This is hardly the only bit of infrastructure. Residents also expect water, sewage, and local roads.
- NumberWangMan 6y agoYou can both be right! Many massive transportation projects absolutely a waste of money when you weigh the costs and benefits. We shouldn't do those. But that doesn't mean that spending so much money on sprawling infrastructure to support suburbs the way we do makes sense either, does it?
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThe Big Dig was for suburbanites to drive into the city, and anyway was $1000/person which is pretty darn cheap over 20+years of use.
- Retric 6y agoLook at a map of the big dig, it’s just through the very center of the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig#/media/File:Boston_Highway_System_Pre_Post_Big_Dig.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig#/media/File:Boston_Hig... So, it doesn’t matter if suburbanites where living in 40 story apartment buildings or single family homes as long as they where past the where the big dig ended it’s all the same traffic in the city center.