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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.

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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

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?

I understand your expectation. That said, I think it's ok to add detail in commentary when the article doesn't mention it explicitly. So continuing to go upon the point that the article didn't mention the budget makes you seem as pedantic.

There are non-English articles on the budget too.

https://orf.at/stories/3414173/

Their point was completely valid. HN policies are what help keep this place sane.

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...

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

€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.

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.

"only slightly over budget"

"almost" is the word

Does the site mention the budget and completion time/cost at all? I can't find it from a quick browse/search of the site. It's taking editorializing to a whole new level to add details that are not in the linked article or site at all.

The right thing to do in this case is find the best source for this information (about the budget, schedule and completion time/cost) and make that the URL of the submission. Please email us the best links you know of about this (hn@ycombinator.com) and we'll consider updating the URL.

The site doesn‘t mention it, I got that information from various german announcements. I fear there probably won‘t be an English announcement regarding the budget, though there will be many regarding the tunnel.

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