[ic0n0cl4st]

> Well that's just inefficiency or graft. The rest of the world is able to achieve far more for far less cost.

Citation?

> Who's our? Generally voters tend to be older, wealthier and landowners. The large pile of younger, less wealthy, more transient renters isn't represented well. I don't think the outcome means the system works.

That’s how democracy works. If you don’t vote, you don’t have a voice.

[arcticbull]

> Citation?

All costs below are in $USD nominal per mile of fully-underground subway system.

NYC subway extension, east side: $3.7B per mile.

SF Central subway: $928M per mile.

Tokyo: $400M

Beijing: $240M

Berlin: $327M

Naples: $194M

Milan: $175M

This is backed up by a Citylab analysis:

  Alon Levy at Citylab shows approximate range of underground rail construction costs in continental Europe and Japan is between $100 million per mile and $1 billion. Most subway lines cluster in the range of $200 million to $500 million per mile.

  The US has a range of subway construction costs of $600 million to $2.6 billion per mile. The US median price cluster is $800 million to $1 billion per mile.

And of course plotted in Tableau [5].

> That’s how democracy works. If you don’t vote, you don’t have a voice.

Indeed.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2019/04/11/subways-us-expensive-...

[2] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/01/subways-and-light-rail...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/the-u-s-g...

[4] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/08/22/construction-c...

[5] https://public.tableau.com/profile/romic2976#!/vizhome/EnoTr...