Why New York City Stopped Building Subways

Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways by lathiat on Monday April 16, 2018 @09:29PM (#16854657)

You probably also underestimate the amount of infrastructure under the street - not just power, water, sewerage but also network, fibre, etc. It is not remotely a small job to do such a thing.

Not to say that it can't work out (or that some of those services don't have to be moved for tunnels) -- but cut and cover was a lot easier when we had less infrastructure.

These problems are obviously 10x in such a dense city as NYC.

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Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways by acjohnson55 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:47AM (#16858218)

I've read before that in many places, they don't even know exactly what's below the street. These sorts of surprises are the bane of budgets and schedules for massive public works projects.

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