Quote:
Originally Posted by BrownTown
That's far too good of an idea to ever happen!
But seriously, can you imagine what it would cost to get something like that built in NYC? They do stuff like that in China all the time, but we could never afford it here.
|
I don't think its a matter of price, but politics. Its easy to build over there, and they have a get it done attitude along with the fact that they invest HEAVY in transportation and on infrastructure. Here though, its a mix of incompetence and mismanagement, especially when it comes to transportation related projects from rail to airports and so on. It would be expensive, but I'm sure they could get the cash. What makes it expensive though is the mismanagement of projects and delays.
But something on the level of an expansion to the Bronx would be a nightmare to manage and occur in the city. Would take decades to fruition. They have a hard enough time building subway expansions, often with delays measured in years, time tables that are off, scandals, and so on. But it could be done theoretically just not any time soon.
The time it takes to build a simple train platform in the U.S., the Chinese already built a whole skyscraper complex. And they do. Literally whole cities from a massive lot that was just dirt.