| > 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... |