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trains cost billions boring company tunnels cost 100x less if you don’t have the money to build a train, trains are useless.
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The tunnels will run on rubber tires and a road, rather than lines. That makes running costs much higher and less environmentally friendly. Think about road works, but in a small tunnel with a heavy vehicle passing over the same spot every few seconds. Also all the rubber.
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Also, for example, the SFCS (at the top) is over the entire life of the project and it includes much more than just the underground. It will have roughly 50million passengers a year.
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The Boring tunnels and systems are backwards tech. Cities are moving away from cars. Driving your own personal vehicle made of metal and plastic, no matter how they are powered is still worse for the environment than mass transit.
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Subways are made of metal and plastic too. Irrelevant. Still can’t beat the cost. If you don’t have money to pay for a subway, it’s useless.
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No shit but how many people does 1 train carry in a lifetime compared to a car? If you don't have money for a subway, you don't have money for an inefficient vanity project. That's why this shit is happening in Vegas and nowhere else.
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