Cut and cover is still often the cheapest way to build a subway and rich countries have abandoned it anyway, because the disruption is no longer tolerated.

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• American cities chose subways over elevated railways knowing they cost two to four times as much, because nobody would live under an el. BPBrian Potter28 May 2025
• The real cost of transport demonstration projects is that they confuse decision-makers about whether mass transit still needs building. JWJarrett Walker20 Dec 2018
• A steady pipeline of transit projects does not by itself prevent costly systems-engineering mistakes, as shown by London's Crossrail. ALAlon Levy29 Jun 2026
• You cannot make America build subways ten times cheaper while only ever talking to Americans. ALAlon Levy5 Aug 2023
• America can copy other countries to reach the frontier of what building already costs elsewhere; nobody knows how to push that frontier forward. BPBrian Potter11 Dec 2025

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