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So, increase the number of tunnels and remove bottlenecks where people are piling up by creating tunnels to where they actually want to go. What would the Lond

So, increase the number of tunnels and remove bottlenecks where people are piling up by creating tunnels to where they actually want to go. What would the London underground look like with 100x more tunnels and stations? A lot less busy in each tunnel probably. Plenty of room under London. The issue is the cost of tunneling and building these massively huge stations. Smaller could be a lot cheaper.

stephen_g 2y ago
That would be ludicrously expensive - again, they had that idea at the Boring Company, and it hinged on finding cheaper ways of building tunnels (beyond just making them too small to fit emergency egress). As we've already seen, that never came to be, tunnelling is pretty optimised as it is. With your 100 tunnels you could probably just reach the capacity of the Elizabeth Line (again, just one example) but at 75x the cost...