Examining the High Cost for San Francisco's Central Subway

A mathematician who crunched the numbers on major projects realized the United States is paying two to three times as much for transit projects as its European and Asian counterparts.

It turns out San Francisco’s version of the ‘Big Dig’ — a pair of titanic transportation projects set to transform the region — could also be a ‘deeper dig’ into the widening pockets of taxpayers.

“San Francisco is not unusually expensive for America,” said Paris-based mathematician and researcher Alon Levy.

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