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0 pointsfranciscop3mo ago0 comments

Sure, I'm just pointing out that this article doesn't follow the HN Guidelines, so I was confused at not seeing any mention of the budget within the article:

> "Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

> "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize"

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fzeindl3mo ago

Agreed, it was just important to me to point it out, since staying within such a massive budget on such a long timeline is a rare achievement.

bigbinary3mo ago

Considering the original title is just the name of the railway, and I do not think “within budget” is editorializing, I think the commenter is being overly pedantic

franciscopOP3mo ago

I opened the article expecting to see news about the budget and how they stayed within it, since that SEEMS like the biggest surprising news in a project like this. How is that overly pedantic?

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paulgerhardt3mo ago

I was curious about the forecasting success story here too. The German LOK article is better in this regard: https://www.lok-report.de/news/europa/item/62410-oesterreich...

jfoster3mo ago

You're using a strange definition of "within". It's 7% over.

fzeindl3mo ago

In a world where large infrastructure projects regularly exceed their budget by 100-1000%, 7% is huge.

It is important to show people that that is possible in government projects.

If you find a more concise way of saying „with unusually small overrun of it‘s budget“ tell me.

Also there were sections added after the initial estimate.

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tremon3mo ago

€5.5 billion in 2005 is €8 billion in 2025, so it can be either over or under budget depending on how you amortize the costs over the construction period.

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0 pointsfranciscop3mo ago0 comments

Sure, I'm just pointing out that this article doesn't follow the HN Guidelines, so I was confused at not seeing any mention of the budget within the article:

> "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize"

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fzeindl3mo ago

Agreed, it was just important to me to point it out, since staying within such a massive budget on such a long timeline is a rare achievement.

bigbinary3mo ago

Considering the original title is just the name of the railway, and I do not think “within budget” is editorializing, I think the commenter is being overly pedantic

franciscopOP3mo ago

I opened the article expecting to see news about the budget and how they stayed within it, since that SEEMS like the biggest surprising news in a project like this. How is that overly pedantic?

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paulgerhardt3mo ago

I was curious about the forecasting success story here too. The German LOK article is better in this regard: https://www.lok-report.de/news/europa/item/62410-oesterreich...

jfoster3mo ago

You're using a strange definition of "within". It's 7% over.

fzeindl3mo ago

In a world where large infrastructure projects regularly exceed their budget by 100-1000%, 7% is huge.

It is important to show people that that is possible in government projects.

If you find a more concise way of saying „with unusually small overrun of it‘s budget“ tell me.

Also there were sections added after the initial estimate.

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tremon3mo ago

€5.5 billion in 2005 is €8 billion in 2025, so it can be either over or under budget depending on how you amortize the costs over the construction period.

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