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In contrast, the median urban subway around the world costs less than $300-million per kilometre. This includes complex projects such as Grand Paris Express, an automated network bored under dense inner suburbs including the office tower cluster at La Défense business district. And Paris is just the median: In cheaper cities such as Seoul, Stockholm and Madrid, urban subways under historic city centres or waterways cost $100-million to $150-million a kilometre.
There are a number of reasons for these tremendously high costs. For a start, the infrastructure is massively overbuilt. The new Highway 407 station on Line 1 of the Toronto subway is a good example. Most of its vast bus terminal is unused, with few prospects that it ever will be. It’s part of an extension that cost almost $400-million a kilometre, in one of the easiest environments for subway construction – a suburban area with wide streets and plenty of room for building.
GlobeDebate Last time we reduced the cost to construct the Canadian Pacific Railway by employing Chinese Railroad Workers.
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