New Subways

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I believe the Dominican Republic also just finished(so I've read) their 1st subway line as well in their capitol, Santo Domingo, a city of about 2 million and traffic just as bad Manhattan. It's about the same length as the proposed "T" train(about 9 miles end to end) and it took them about roughly 4 years to "complete" the system.

[krichton]

Originally Posted by squeezeboxgal

Realize, though, that Dubai is a constitutional monarchy and flush with money, neither of which is the situation with New York. It's a lot easier to get things done when you basically own your country .....

Also labor is unbelieveably cheap. If you have endless streams of money and cheap labor you can get virtually anything done.

[Fred314X]

It's true: the situation in Dubai can't really be compared to New York's. But it is also true that the IRT subway was finished in four years, and all they had was the technology available in 1900. It should not take 20 years to build the Second Avenue subway, even allowing for politics and bureaucracy.