Madrid’s Modular Metro

How to build a subway at half the cost and twice the speed, something most would say is impossible. But Madrid did it. Here’s how.

Bent Flyvbjerg
Geek Culture
Published in
4 min readDec 10, 2021

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Madrid Metro (source: Wikimedia Commons)

The leadership of Madrid Metro was responsible for one of the largest and fastest subway expansions in history. They succeeded because they understood the importance of speed and modularity, two concepts not…

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Bent Flyvbjerg
Geek Culture

Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford; Professor, IT University of Copenhagen. Writes about project management. https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyvbjerg/