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Building more rail could help bring down its cost

Posted on May 16, 2022

One of the main reasons that heavy rail projects are more expensive to build in the U.S. is that we build too few projects, too infrequently, to optimize our engineering, review, and land acquisition policies.

Posted in Freight, TransitTagged freight, heavy rail, infrastructure, transit

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