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0 pointsxyzzyz3y ago0 comments

Can you give an example of successful recent (say, from last 30 years) passenger rail project that, unlike your Chicago one, actually exists? I mean, it is easy to set out space for project in advance, it’s actually building it that is the hard part.

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relwin3y ago

$2.1 billion 10 mile light rail extension, completed last year:

https://www.sdmts.com/inside-mts/current-projects/uc-san-die...

simfree3y ago

Dayyyum, that is cheap compared to our 2 mile tunnel here in Seattle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Route_99_tunnel

$210 million a mile for rail is a great value compared to the cost to build here in the Puget Sound region. Sounds Transit 3 is adding 62 miles of rail for $53.8 billion and central portions like Ballard and West Seattle are still over a decade away from starting construction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Transit#Sound_Transit_2

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