>>1948293I read an article on why nyc's transit projects are so expensive. It's cause they build extremely huge, nonstandard, over the top stations whenever they go to build a new station. No two stations are the same, which is ridiculous because you need to spend time and money drafting and building both designs. And they're huge too, with tons of backrooms for maintenance crews, cleaning, and other workers. Which is ridiculous because there's no reason to excavate all that space when the city could just use space in a nearby above ground building. If nyc would build smaller standardized stations, it would cut down on costs significantly
