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Their wordsIn truth, the UK shares high costs with more decentralized countries, and Spain shares low ones with more centralized ones.
Their wordsSo Portland managed to build one very small line for fairly reasonable costs, but they were not cutting edge; this is a common pattern to Western US cities, in that the first line has reasonable costs and then things explode, even while staying self-funded and self-directed.
Their wordsThe truth is that there’s nothing that can be learned from American projects within living memory except what not to do.
Their wordsA single case study can lead to overlearning from the peculiarities of one place, where the right thing to do is look at a number of successes and look at what is common to all of them.