Elsewhere in the world, a mile of subway track typically costs $500 million or less. “We’re very excited that they’re doing this study.”A spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways, said the authority was already acting to reduce construction costs. under new leadership is aggressively tackling these issues through working groups dedicated to procurement reform and containing construction costs,” said the spokesman, Jon Weinstein. The federal inquiry is a milestone in more than a year of stop-and-start efforts in Washington to address the costs of transit construction. All those countries have completed major construction projects in the last decade that cost far less than American projects.

Source: New York Times March 28, 2018 22:27 UTC