Perhaps. The rest of the UK has overcrowding problems but more easily solvable with investment. And I'm not that familiar with other systems, except maybe Paris.
I trust, of course, that you wouldn't advocate making NO effort to improve the Tube/T/etc?
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Of course not. But things like platform extensions or tunnel reboring can be very difficult.
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Right! So we either do them slowly, or we don't do them at all. I'm advocating the former.
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Though there is an argument for leaving them as they are, with maintenance and limited improvement, and building loads of Crossrails to gradually replace them.
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Seems like a lot of extra cost to maintain and improve existing tunnels while building tons of parallel tunnels to eventually replace them--so long as you're maintaining and improving, why not do so in the direction of making them more Crossrail-like?
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Reboring would be as expensive, and they have lots of inconvenient curves (they follow roads, which also have inconvenient curves).
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...and building new tunnels wouldn't involve a lot of expensive boring?
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About the same cost, I'd have thought.
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soooo why not stick with existing routes then
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