The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers

Re:The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers by nostromo on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:22PM (#16260338)

$100k isn’t a high estimate at all. The article says they were costing $1k a day.

> All we knew is they were each being paid about $1,000 every day.

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Re:The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers by trophycase on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:40PM (#16260454)

Ok that's great and all but don't try to derail the major point which is that this pay is an extremely small fraction of the cost.

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Re:The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers by InitialLastName on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:02PM (#16260590)

You're doing that math wrong. Take $73mil a year. Make it $100mil a year, to cover other employment expenses (employees cost more than their salaries). The extension took 10 years, so call that $1billion. That sounds like about 1/7 of the cost of the 2 miles of track, not an "extremely small fraction"

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Re:The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers by ceejayoz on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:57PM (#16260991)

Surely you don't think that's the only opportunity in the entire system to siphon off money?

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