US transit costs and how to tame them

I'm joined by Alon Levy of NYU's Transit Costs Project, whose
work documents how expensive it is to build transit in the US
relative to the rest of the world. We discuss how countries like
Spain and Italy build cheaply by relying on in-house public
expertise and standardized designs, while the Anglosphere is
captured by a costly ideology of privatization. Levy explains how
applying these lessons could make ambitious projects like
high-speed rail in the Northeast not just possible but
affordable.


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