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Quoth the article: -------- Tunneling in any dense urban environment is an expensive proposition, but the $5 billion price tag for just the first two miles of
by raldi 14y ago
Quoth the article:
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Tunneling in any dense urban environment is an expensive proposition, but the $5 billion price tag for just the first two miles of the Second Avenue subway cannot be explained by engineering difficulties. The segment runs mainly beneath a single broad avenue, unimpeded by rivers, super-tall skyscraper foundations or other subway lines.
- bearmf 14y agoBut it does run through one of the most densely populated areas in the world. See Manhattan Community Board 8 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_densely_populated_country_subdivisions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_densely_popula...