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it's not like these other countries are lax on worker protections either, so "it's the unions' faults" won't fly
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And particularly appalling when you consider how much nicer the subway ride is in Barcelona vs. Washington DC.
The fact that municipal spending on public transit construction is crazy expensive is well documented. We need examples of huge bureaucracies that have successfully reduced costs.
Cut and cover is cheaper than tunneling. Plus practice makes perfect- keep expanding to lower construction costs. Don’t stop and start
Regulation and lawsuits. I watched a version of this in Pasco County Florida. Sierra Club delayed building of a shopping center for years. Lawsuit after lawsuit. The developer answered everything did all the remediadiation necessary and then bingo there would be another lawsuit.
Just a product of repetition. Spain is cheap because they build a lot of subway.
I’d imagine if you compared the cost of building a 5-deck highway interchange in Houston vs Paris, you’d see this same thing flipped around.
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So I interviewed for a job that made me do a case study on this, it's "consulting" costs, that's pretty much what it boils down to, lots of costs on thinking about doing things rather than just getting engineers and scientists to do what is needed
That’s because public infrastructure is a jobs program, not an infrastructure program.
Could this partly be because of a selection bias? Right now the only *underground* *metro* construction in the US is in NYC or LA. Less informed on other countries, but I would assume labor and other costs are much higher than smaller, foreign cities building new subways
More broadly, it appears speaking English of any variety is expensive while doing construction underground. 
Why doesn't every country outsource all transportation projects to Spain. Super cheap on subways, high-speed rail
It's all the money we spend on "consultants" - Unnecessary workers/companies with political connections that get contracts to do nothing.
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Going down to Canada levels alone would double our capacity to build transit
We need dedicated funding to build in-house capacity, NJTransit had it until Christie gutted it and Murphy pretty much gave up on it
In the US they can’t even resurface a damn side street within 3 months. The one in front of my house has been torn up since June.
Ironically, that chart could easily apply to healthcare and drug prices,
America, land of the eternal middleman.
A bunch of reasons... including not-invented-here syndrome (xenophobia) in the form of extremely onerous domestic content requirements.
The Berlin Wall fell for a reason. It would be foolish to consider trying to rebuild it - and all it represents - today.
I think we should have an 18 month community consultation process to consider this graph
NYT I believe actually did a really good story on this a few years ago. Basically our process is just insane & bloated at all levels. Stations too big, using dumb outdated/expensive systems, and crazy union mandated staffing levels. NYC crews have a FT elevator operator!
I had read that this cost was because Union stranglehold on tunnel jobs keeps wages absolutely astronomical but looked it up, and it’s only like $33/hr. Is this cost ALL admin permitting and planning??
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I'm wondering why Spain is so cheap. I'd read that London was a pioneer in tunneling because the clay there happened to be easy to work with.
It's crazy... and if anyone is interested, take a look at FedBizOpps... all winning bids are milking it...
Wow how is it even so much worse than canada? I thought the whole anglosphere was similarly bloated and incompetent when it comes to infra construction.
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If politicians & activists are at all serious about promoting public infrastructure, subways, rail, etc... then feasibility & scale ---> reducing costs & efficiency should always be a major priority.
I was in Rome earlier this year. The subway line that I saw under construction near the coliseum in 2016 was still under construction in May. I really question these numbers.
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Meanwhile France built an entire new subway line around the entire perimeter of Paris, a HUGE city, for less than we just spend fixing 75 between flint & Detroit
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That chart almost looks like relative GDP per capita!
(Just boost Australia and Norway and take down the UK)
We've made it illegal and expensive to build shit here. No wonder no progress is being made.
It'd be interesting to look at the cost per mile vs how many miles were tunnelled, considering the obvious economies of scale. E.g. presumably that would explain why Spain is so cheap.
Our state, local, and federal governments love setting our money on fire. Why do you think everyone is tired of giving them more? This is not exclusive to subways.
Wonder why. Regulations taken to insanity.
Prepare for the libertarian copium of "it is because of regulation". Wait those other countries are more regulated?
Geez maybe those carte-blanche contracts were not such a good idea....
America is insanely inefficient. If it wasn’t for its vast resources we’d be so fucked
We don't have a functioning free market with competition in public sector infrastructure. This is a consequence of Republican leadership failing to take action against monopilies.
Unions and bureaucrats.
Some people worship these things.
Other people understand they are cancer.
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Huge government with huge regulations is the problem. Vote Red and fix it. 
The administrative state needs to regulate ever more. It’s like a tick that will suck you dry.
What I don’t see anyone in these replies saying is that it has to do with everything in America being a process. In particular, allowing a private right to action for just about everything: increases litigation and drives up costs.
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I choose to believe this caused by American rocks being bigger and denser and tougher than rocks in all other countries and not because of crippling institutional failures.
Everything about public transit is out of this world. Costs are always multiples of the price that they're sold at originally, construction time multiples of original plan, subsidization is eternal, not for a short time, ridership never comes up to selling projections, etc.
Going to have significantly different prices depending on location in the u.s... like Houston Texas would be a hundred times more expensive because it will flood 43 times a year.
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