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Comment by rmason

One of the reasons that subways are built only in very large cities is that you need a very high population density to make it worthwhile because of the cost of digging the tunnels.

But what if the cost were a tenth as much? I posit that for a city of 500,000 - 1,000,000 it might become practical to have subways and that radically changes the transit equation.

So I am very bullish on Musk bringing down the cost of tunneling. It all depends on how low he's able to reduce the cost.

parent rmason 9 years ago

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