France does more trams, so they have homegrown industry to support them, standard economy of scale. The list is also comparing smaller French urban areas with very dense urban areas such as Manchester, which has higher property prices, more infrastructure to avoid or divert, and so on.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why is this the case?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
BrightCandle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I suspect it’s just corruption. As we have seen government works by giving their friends the work at crazy markups with no requirement anything be delivered. The end result is lots of people getting rich off government contracts and low quality infrastructure at best.
mondoman712@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
There isn’t long running strategic planning for this type of thing and no consistency in the volume of work, so the construction industry can’t invest in having the capacity. That and risk contingencies are way higher.