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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
Everyone seems to be leaving out one key factor here. In the US we spend unreal amounts of money to have transit "fit" our absurd decentralized land-use, instead of having our land use fit transit. To say this is a fantastically collosal waste of resources is like shooting fish ina barrel.
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That might be true in cities like Seattle where they are building transit well out into the suburbs and getting diminishing returns, but the worst examples of cost overruns are lines in New York City and San Francisco which are all in high density areas, not the suburbs.