Sunday, March 14, 2021

Cross Island Land - tunnel cost

The Land Transport Authority has awarded a contract of $356 million 3.2 km tunnel. 

The cost is $111 million per km.

Here are the details of this contract. 
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/lta-awards-356-million-contract-for-cross-island-line-tunnel-works

The Boring Company started by Elon Musk claim to be able to build a tunnel at $10 million USD per mile. This tunnel has a diameter of 12 feet.

https://www.boringcompany.com/faq 

While the size of the tunnel that is needed for 2 tracks of the MRT train is bigger, I wonder if it justify a cost that is 10 times more. 

Maybe, we should look at more efficient ways of digging tunnels?

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