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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by Drunk_Engineer on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @12:31AM (#24976671)
Switzerland benefits from having POP ticketing, whereas US planners insist on faregates. The only reason the US builds mezzanines is to manage the faregate queues.
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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by thaumasiotes on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:52AM (#24977749)
Interestingly, Caltrain uses POP, and indeed it has some stations that amount to a sidewalk next to the train tracks. So this isn't quite a "US planners" issue; Caltrain and BART serve different halves of the Bay Area.

Caltrain manages to be much more dysfunctional than BART, sadly.

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