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Re: DeBlasio to propose incredibly-expensive streetcar line

Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Feb 4 03:42:58 2016, in response to DeBlasio to propose light rail line, posted by AlM on Wed Feb 3 18:33:18 2016.

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The streetcar system, which would realize a long-held fantasy of the city’s urban planners, is expected to cost about $2.5 billion, significantly less than a new underground subway line, city officials said on Wednesday. . . .
Groan. Only because $156 million per mile (that's 56 percent higher than the average per-mile cost of HBLR) is less than $400 million per mile (which used to get you a four-track main line in the past).

This would make the project the most expensive streetcar in the nation in terms of capital cost. (Portland Streetcar and similar projects work out to about $10 million per mile.)

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