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> The total cost for installing full-height gates in just those 128 stations would be over $7 billion 54 million per station. I assume on average 3 lines in ea
by dzhiurgis 3y ago
> The total cost for installing full-height gates in just those 128 stations would be over $7 billion
54 million per station. I assume on average 3 lines in each station, maybe 8 doors per line?
$2.2M per door. That's just insane.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoRight. $54 million? Yeah, no. I bet you could go to Lowes or Home Depot and get the necessary materials for a couple of thousand bucks at most, and probably get the installation done for maybe $5k (or say $10k given the insane prices in NYC). Then hire a few guys at (being generous) $100k a year to open and close the gates manually when the train reached the station and had stopped completely. Say 10 guys, so a million bucks a year. At the quoted $54 million you could fund this low-tech setup for 54 years.