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The English-world is TERRIBLE at building transit. This is why. (www.youtube.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50646165

A well researched and referenced video (see yt description for references and spreadsheets), from Sharath of Building Beautifully.

The cost of building transit in the Anglosphere has spiralled out of control. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong are all terrible at managing transit costs. Meanwhile, nations like France, Spain, South Korea and Turkey are running laps around the Anglosphere, building world-class transit at unprecedented speeds for prices up to four times cheaper. There is no reason for building transit to cost this much. Follow me as we unpack the staggering reasons that costs have spiralled out of control, and what we can do about it. Thank you to Jedwin Mok for appearing in this video! Jedwin introduced me to the transit costs crisis in mid-2025, which led me to ultimately create this video and interview him for it.

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Tldw: 1000004520

Some unshortened links:

University of Toronto report about transit costs in Canada, which Jedwin Mok is an author on: https://onedrive.live.com/?id=%2Fpersonal%2F4581db26fec1b7aa%2FDocuments%2FHome%2FOD+Building+Beautifully%2FTransit+Cost+Crisis%2FFiles%2FUnderstanding-the-Drivers-of-Transit-Construction-Costs-in-Canada_Feb-2025_FINAL.pdf&listurl=%2Fpersonal%2F4581db26fec1b7aa%2FDocuments&ithint=file%2Cpdf&e=rrya6P&migratedtospo=true&parent=%2Fpersonal%2F4581db26fec1b7aa%2FDocuments%2FHome%2FOD+Building+Beautifully%2FTransit+Cost+Crisis%2FFiles&redeem=aHR0cHM6Ly8xZHJ2Lm1zL2IvYy80NTgxZGIyNmZlYzFiN2FhL0lRQnVSTk1EN0JBdlJZWXNqOFpPRWp2a0FZYTZWVnV0ZGNVQ1A0V1FNaHdPVEMwP2U9cnJ5YTZQ&ga=1

The spreadsheet I manually created to collate the cost of various projects across the Anglosphere and compare them to cheaper jurisdictions: https://onedrive.live.com/:x:/g/personal/4581DB26FEC1B7AA/IQApQpAbby1PTrQSkBLo1IDuASba5Br8kLTQBWM95rPyT3o?resid=4581DB26FEC1B7AA%21s1b9042292d6f4e4fb4129012e8d480ee&ithint=file%2Cxlsx&e=3ei4aE&migratedtospo=true&redeem=aHR0cHM6Ly8xZHJ2Lm1zL3gvYy80NTgxZGIyNmZlYzFiN2FhL0lRQXBRcEFiYnkxUFRyUVNrQkxvMUlEdUFTYmE1QnI4a0xUUUJXTTk1clB5VDNvP2U9M2VpNGFF

Another much more in-depth spreadsheet by the Transit Costs Project - I got most of my data from here: https://onedrive.live.com/:x:/g/personal/4581DB26FEC1B7AA/IQCxJ8nrTdAiRqEHIIrRGLHDAXojE_ZxYEYp8GTOG2dRZ0g?resid=4581DB26FEC1B7AA%21sebc927b1d04d4622a107208ad118b1c3&ithint=file%2Cxlsx&e=6rLTNu&migratedtospo=true&redeem=aHR0cHM6Ly8xZHJ2Lm1zL3gvYy80NTgxZGIyNmZlYzFiN2FhL0lRQ3hKOG5yVGRBaVJxRUhJSXJSR0xIREFYb2pFX1p4WUVZcDhHVE9HMmRSWjBnP2U9NnJMVE51

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