[thomasdelteil]

The project will be financed by the Boring company, not by the city. The Heathrow express in London work on a similar concept, it takes 15 min to go to Heathrow compared to 1h with the tube, and they charge ~10 times the price of a regular tube ticket.

[jcomis]

And Heathrow express is nearly empty all the time...

[SubiculumCode]

Well I took it because I was silly enough to buy a flight with a transfer between London City and Heathrow. The first time I took a cab...238 pounds. Kill me. Next time I took the tubes, and was glad to get on the cushy express after the crowded London tubes...and I had to make my flight so another hour would not have worked for me.

[sriram_sun]

Well for clueless tourists like me, I sucked it up and paid up the 50 pounds or whatever it costs for the roundtrip to the airport.

[handelaar]

Which is why the Heathrow Connect (as was, it's about to become part of the new Crossrail line and has changed name and operator in the past 2 months I gather), which costs about £11 and runs on the exact same line but stops on the way and takes about 25 mins, has eaten its lunch.