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> This reminds me of when they opened the Gotthard Base Tunnel maybe 5 years ago. (...) It takes an incredibly prosperous and stable place to make achieve that
by arinlen 4y ago
> This reminds me of when they opened the Gotthard Base Tunnel maybe 5 years ago. (...) It takes an incredibly prosperous and stable place to make achieve that increment of improvement. And this feels like more of that same story.
If should be noted that the Gottard Tunnel project was subjected to a national referendum after making it clear the project was astronomically expensive, it would take ages to build, and it was virtually impossible to recoup the investment.
- sschueller 4y agoThe GBT cost almost 10 billion. Still way less than the 22 Billion the big dig in Boston cost that put the highway under the city. Initial estimate was 2.8 Billion. Meanwhile the city of Zürich dug a 4.8 km train tunnel and lost (permanently stuck and removal impossible because of possible collapse) a TBM during work almost collapsing the Bahnhofplatzt for just around 2 Billion. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinberg_Tunnel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinberg_Tunnel [2] https://www.zvv.ch/zvv/de/ueber-uns/projekte/in-betrieb/durchmesserlinie.html https://www.zvv.ch/zvv/de/ueber-uns/projekte/in-betrieb/durc...