Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "The $11B Tunnel That Could Save One of Europe’s Busiest Mountain Corridors | WSJ Breaking Ground" video.

  1. The thing is, nobody owns anything a mile below the mountains. You just make a test drill and once you are satisfied with your findings, you are good to go. Nobody then cares. Digging in a city is different. There is so much infrastructure, basements, foundations, wires, debris etc. Not much space for logistics etc… That makes it exoensive
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  2. They started decades earlier
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  3. You can’t easily increase traffic across the Alps…
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  4. To be honest, Switzerland had only the technical challenges under the mountain where nobody lived. Otoh in Germany you have a densely populated area where you have to built more tracks and have to fight NIMBYs all day long
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