The Super High Cost of Building Subways in NYC

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 13, 2023

A new NYU study found somewhat surprising reasons why it's so much more expensive to build new subways here in NYC than almost anywhere else in the world. Eric Goldwyn, assistant professor and program director at NYU Marron, explains what they found and whether some of the super high costs could be brought down.

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