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Well, the 2nd Ave subway was first proposed in 1920. It only took them a hundred years to build the first section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_

• woodruffw 5y ago
  I absolutely love to complain about the 2nd Ave Subway, but it's worth noting that the "100 year" figure includes ~50 years of NYC mostly just promising to build the line. Actual construction began in the 70s, and was subsequently suspended for another 20 years because of the city's poor finances. So that gets us closer to a merely ludicrous 30-50 year construction timescale instead of an egregious 100 year one.