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Why are subway stations so much more expensive? Because of the size, right? The Boring stations seem to be much smaller.
by ZetaZero 4y ago
Why are subway stations so much more expensive? Because of the size, right? The Boring stations seem to be much smaller.
- ncmncm 4y agoWhere by "much smaller", I guess you mean "able to transport many orders of magnitude fewer people".
- ZetaZero 4y agoAbsolutely fewer people. Yes, I agree a subway is better than car tunnel, when costs are ignored. But LV doesn't have $30B to build a subway tunnel. But a car tunnel can be built for roughly 100x less, $300 million.
- ncmncm 4y agoUselessly, unless you have only a few people to move. Then, taxis work better.
- alephxyz 4y agoYup, expropriating land and blocking main roads for months while you dig down and pour concrete for a station is expensive. Although some newer metro lines like Barcelona's line 9 are able to fit most of the stations inside the larger tunnel so that they only need to dig elevators straight down to them which ends up being a lot cheaper.