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michelle r on March 25, 2019 at 10:12 am
Lawsuits and issues with acquiring property have resulted in multiple delays with construction of the Purple Line. No one is sure when it will open or how much the delays will cost, but contractors claim it could be as much as $300 million. (Katherine Shaver / Post) Twitter

This is why I'm skeptical that the Boring Company or any other engineering firm will be able to get the costs of building transit down by a noticeable amount. A lot of these costs aren't really engineering or technical at all -- they're the cost of buying land in an expensive area and then wading through the gauntlet of lawsuits and appeals and new lawsuits and appeals, which can take an unpredictable amount of time to resolve (even if they lack merit). 

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