Re:Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panam...
by albert180 on Sunday January 14, 2024 @07:11PM
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You build that route through nothing. There is no need for tunnels, and I don't see any positives, that you couldn't remediate much cheaper. For animal movement you can just build huge animal bridges every few hundred meters. Weather is rarely a problem for train operations, tunnels create also a whole lot of new "Negatives". You need evacuation systems, ventilation systems, maintenance etc...
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Re:Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panam...
by loceng on Monday January 15, 2024 @09:49AM
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I really would love to see an effort, perhaps best spearheaded by Boring Company themselves, to do a very thorough "feature matrix" of pros and cons and real-life current costs of things depending on the area, e.g. snow removal costs, how much building "huge animal bridges" that allows ecosystem to not be too disrupted, etc.
It's such a complex issue that a fully "complete" overview is necessary, that can be then dove into over weeks or months of time to first study its thoroughness to then be able to decide how accurate or credible it is, and add to or correct it if an incongruence or error or incomplete aspect found.