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Old Posted Jan 16, 2015, 5:16 PM
jngreenlee jngreenlee is offline
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Originally Posted by Novacek View Post
I think Meredith must be an attention whore, just trying to get press. Why in the world would you buy a many-multi-million dollar piece of equipment, then let it sit around for 10-20 years (or much more) requiring maintenance and depreciating all the time? Then by the time a "subway" is actually approved, technology has moved on and the new boring machines are much better and/or cheaper.
Interesting story - Seattle's boring machine for hwy 99 is stuck and undergoing a massive project to recover it:

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http://seattletimes.com/html/localne...acranexml.html
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