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Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways by Nav_Panel on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:37PM (#16851548)
The alternative solution is to build stations "inline" with the bored tunnels. This can be done quite cheaply, assuming modern ventilation/engineering are used. Note that $2bb of the $4bb for the 2nd Ave line came from station construction...
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Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways by JumpCrisscross on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:54PM (#16851686)
> Note that $2mm of the $4mm for the 2nd Ave line

Billion.

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Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways by Nav_Panel on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:13PM (#16852291)
Good catch, thanks.
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Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways by bobthepanda on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:48PM (#16852623)
You still need access shafts. New York builds subway stops that have access from the sidewalk; purchasing property for that would be too expensive. And if you build entrances from the sidewalk you also need a way from a sidewalk to access tracks going in both directions. So you end up digging up the entire street anyways.
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