The Second Avenue Subway: Ep. 29

The Second Avenue Subway may be the most expensive bit of subway ever built, shattering the already mind-bogglingly-high records set by its NYC predecessors. Maybe it was the unions, or contractor negligence, but we can be sure it had nothing to do with corruption, because there has never been any corruption in New York. Links and stuffs Merch:https://shop.trlpod.com/ Twitter:@TheRedLine_pod YouTube channel:The Red Line Podcast Spotify:The Red Line Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/theredlinepodcasters Email:[email protected] Website:https://www.trlpod.com/ Timestamps Timestamps to be posted. References & notes [1]Mass Transit: CA: Bay Area storm caused disruptions for BART, Muni. Here's how long it will take them to recover [2]Gothamist: A Brief History Of The Long-Awaited Second Avenue Subway [3]Wikipedia: Second Avenue Subway § Phase 1 [4]MTA: Second Avenue Subway, phase 2 [5]Railway Age: Now Advancing: New York's Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 [6]Metro Wiki: Second Avenue Subway [7]NYT: The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth [8]Marketplace: Why does transit infrastructure cost so much in the U.S.? [9]New York Magazine: Why Is Infrastructure So Expensive to Build in New York? [10]Metro Wiki: Interborough Rapid Transit Company [11]Metro Wiki: Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation [12]Metro Wiki: Independent Subway System [13]Wikipedia: IRT Lexington Avenue Line [14]Curbed NY: How New York City's subway construction costs got so high