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I read at this web site that the new HSR in China will cost $(US)15 billion, whereas a maglev would have cost $(US)50 billion. At 1300 kilometers, approximately 812.5 miles, the average cost per mile will be around $(US)18.5 million. This new HSR will be built using new real estate for right of way. Florida's numbers for HSR are $12 million per mile between Orlando and Tampa, along I-4 right of way, and around $20 million per mile between Orlando and Miami, with all of the track elevated from West Palm Beach to Miami along the Florida Turnpike right of way. Florida shows there is significant savings using existing right of way. The Texas DOT Trans Texas Corridors Plan presents HSR around $6 million per mile. However, while this appears low the TTC uses right of way already purchased and uses overpasses and underpasses combined with turnpikes, etc. Both DOTs, Florida and Texas, quote a price of $3 million per mile to electricify the tracks. Some have questioned these numbers in the past as being low, but now China confirms these numbers...... Obviously, it costs more to build light rail in urban areas than it does to build HSR, even to a higher standard, in rural areas..... And so much for keeping the distances below 400 miles in length. China is building HSR for twice that length, which, by the way, is near the length of my proposed parralegram from the NEC to the Midwest, to Texas, and to Florida. IF WE USE EXISTING INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS AND/OR RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUILD HSR AROUND FLORIDA'S NUMBERS!
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