oltmannd Brazil is planning to build a 317 mile HSR line for $16B. CAHSR is a 430 mile line with a $98B price tag. That's $50M/mile in Brazil vs. $230M/mile in CA. That's more than 4X the cost per mile! What gives?
Brazil is planning to build a 317 mile HSR line for $16B. CAHSR is a 430 mile line with a $98B price tag. That's $50M/mile in Brazil vs. $230M/mile in CA.
That's more than 4X the cost per mile! What gives?
Land purchase costs?
If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
The CA HSR project price tag is also in year of expenditure dollars. Since it is a several decade long project at this point, that drives up the total projected cost based on a 2 or 3% inflation rate. The CA HSR project also has multiple significant mountain ranges with miles of tunnels that push up the total price tag. I don't know what the terrain issues and likely land acquisition costs are for the Brazil HSR route. $/mile is a rather crude metric to compare HSR projects.
IMO, once the CA HSR project goes through a proper cost engineering phase, the final price tag for the route outside of the San Jose-SF and LA corridor segments will go down.
Don,
Brazil is not infested with enviormentailist wackos and their lacky politicians.
Mac
If my memory serves me correctly, I believe the latest numbers for the CHSR Project have been scaled back to $68 billion before financing. Depending on the terms of the financing, it can double the cost of a long term capital project.
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
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