https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianafurchtgott-roth/2022/01/31/marylands-purple-line-leaves-taxpayers-seeing-red/?sh=fc6e87b65ef8
cost of steel rail at most is 50.00 a foot
Consider the source of what is basically an opinion piece. While Forbes has a favorable reputation for its factual pieces, keep in mind that it does describe itself as "a capitalist tool".
Doesn't sound out of line from what is going down in Fun City
"The New York Times dubbed the nearly completed East Side Access project in an article on costly labor and wasted resources the “Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth.” At $3.5 billion per mile, and the first phase of the Second Avenue at $2.5 billion per mile, are some of the costliest per-mile projects in the world."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html
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That's an advertising slogan. There's nothing in the article that appears to be very slanted. She is pointing out that heavy rail transit appears to be not cost effective in this case due to its delayed construction and today's high construction costs. Now if it would have been built 20 years ago it may been cost effective at that time.
alphasThat's an advertising slogan.
I think that was the name of his airplane as well. If I've got the right one in mind, it was painted gold...
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Virtually any 'big' project in a metropolitian area will have half to two thirds of the total expenses in the project will end up being spent on handling and relocation of the various utilities that we 'don't see' when we look at the project. Sewer (sanitary and storm water), Water, Steam, land lines, cable tv lines and on and on - utilities both above and below ground level.
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