• zephyreks@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    don’t you know? roads build themselves with the labour of poor illegal immigrants

    FWIW road has similar cost to standard rolling stock, which ends up being substantially cheaper than urban subway tracks… so… it’s not entirely wrong? building a road in the city is cheaper than building a subway because of… tbh I’m not too sure, but it is in practice

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Well, it’s a subway, you have to excavate an entire tunnel system for that. But in return you get an entire traffic infrastrucutre that takes up next to no space on the surface, which means a lot in densely built areas. I guess if you’d compare subways to underground roads like that stuff Musk had built in Las Vegas, or if you’d compare roads to cable car tracks, costs would be fairly similar again.

      • Barabas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        If we are talking about building new roads in cities that is also usually a tunnel these days. The days of Moses tearing down entire city blocks for a highway is largely a thing of the past.