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How to avoid repeating the mistakes that make the NYC East Side line, the most costly subway extension ever built.

As metropolitan areas around the country consider major transit-expansion projects, New York’s Second Avenue subway provides a cautionary tale with valuable lessons for government administrators at all levels. Building just three stations — at a cost of $4.5 billion, nearly 90 years after the subway was first promised.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/03/09/op-ed-the-second-avenue-subways-lessons-for-american-transit/

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