it’s because we don’t look outside of the anglosphere for inspiration and examples… and the anglosphere is nortoriously bad at building transit
“Every country with a transit project over $1 billion per kilometre speaks English as its primary language,” they report.
The US, HK, Australia, UK also spend too much—because they fail to look at projects in the rest of the world, comparing only within the Anglosphere.
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so this article briefly mentions an interesting point in the second paragraph but doesn’t follow up on it:
https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/113617757559814333
it’s because we don’t look outside of the anglosphere for inspiration and examples… and the anglosphere is nortoriously bad at building transit
edit: actually, both the globe article and the mastodon thread link to the same report that discusses the problem in the anglosphere: https://archive.is/o/fX30B/https://stateofcitiessummit.ca/files/041224_Understanding-the-Drivers-of-Transit-Construction-Costs-in-Canada-A-Comparative-Study.pdf
How about lookijg at the Netherlands…? And by extension, France (especially Paris!)