US Rail Construction Costs (pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com)

Please don't use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize. (Submitted title was "NYC and SF beat the world with Transit boondoggles".)

I don't know about the US, but the UK construction industry is unbelievably slow and bureaucratic compared to other European countries in general.

Another data point: Ottawa's light rail project ([1]), at roughly $CAD200M/km.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Line

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