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Pic of the Day: Dubai Schools Us in Public Transit

1:51 pm Monday Sep 14, 2009 by Kelsey Keith

If this is what the infamous Second Avenue subway line is planning to look like, then we’ll gladly wait until 2012 2034 when it’s finally finished. Dubai’s new luxury metro opened last week and the features are duly impressive. Stats and more photos after the jump.

52 kilometers (roughly 32 miles) of track with 29 stations.
Wireless Internet service at all the stations and on the trains.
The entire system was constructed in only four years but cost €5.25 billion.
The world’s “longest fully-automated, driverless metro system.”
Dubai is the first city in the oil-rich Gulf to introduce rail as a commuting option; currently only 6% of residents use public transportation (compared to more than half of New Yorkers).

Via Speigel Online.

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Agricanto • September 14th, 2009 at 6:45 pm

I think that’s $2 million USD per foot. That’s crazy. No wonder they didn’t want drivers. Cost too much.

Brandon • September 15th, 2009 at 2:01 am

52 kilometers = 170,604 feet. 5.25 billion euro = $7.673 billion USD.

$7.673 billion USD/170,604 feet = $44,980/linear foot.

Not quite $2 million, but still expensive. I hope the US gets to this point eventually.

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