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How We Can Build a Rapid Transit Network Overnight Everywhere

How Bus Rapid Transit Can Save Us from a Nation That No Longer Supports Transit or Knows How to Build It

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Hayden Clarkin
Feb 14, 2025
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Over the past few years, the United States and much of the Anglosphere have seemingly reached a troubling consensus: we can’t build anything efficiently. Subways now cost over a billion dollars per mile, only a handful of naval ships are built annually, and highway construction costs have skyrocketed by 166% in just five years. Our infrastructure develo…

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