A $33M subway elevator where the hardware was about 1% of the cost

Columbia’s 125th Street station accessibility project illustrates how real-world infrastructure costs can be dominated by process, coordination, and construction overhead

Recently learned from an obscure article that Columbia committed $33M for a single elevator + widened escalator project at the 125th St 1 train. The craziest thing is the elevator + escalator hardware itself is ~1% of the 33 million. Thou