Didn’t find much of anything on maintenance or operation. These particular pages seem not bad in terms of estimating costs (and are fairly consistent with the bulk of what I’ve read). <\/p>\n
A newspaper editorial discussing the future of rail near minneapolis. “Northstar would cost $3.7 million per mile, an exclusive busway, $10 million per mile and adding lanes to Highway 10, $12 million per mile” It also has an interesting bit on return on investment. But it’s very much a pro-rail political statement<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.abcnewspapers.com\/2003\/april\/24ed.html<\/p>\n
Examines the costs of building a bridge across long island sound, and, for a highway with 6 lanes (3 each way) and shoulders, they estimate $100m\/mile (or about $16.6m\/mile\/lane). Trestle bridge estimates were twice that per mile, and suspension bridge 2.5 times as much per mile. Going back to http:\/\/www.nycroads.com\/crossings\/LI-sound-3\/<\/p>\n Discusses the cost of streetcar programs that were constructed in various places, including the cost of cars. $2m\/mile for the no-frills system built in Kenosha Wisconsin with refurbished street cars. $30m\/mile in sf, including, apparently, alot of expensive and purely decorative features. But that’s street car stuff, and not light rail. It basically says that projects asking more than $10m\/mile for street cars or $20m\/mile for light rail ought not be funded. Note this is a pro-rail site. <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.heritagetrolley.org\/artcileBringBackStreetcars7.htm<\/p>\n PERTS stands for Personal Electric Rapid Transport System. By which it means putting your car on a maglev frame, in essence. <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.crts.vt.edu\/perts_fs.htm Didn’t find much of anything on maintenance or operation. These particular pages seem not bad in terms of estimating costs (and are fairly consistent with the bulk of what I’ve read). A newspaper editorial discussing the future of rail near minneapolis. “Northstar would cost $3.7 million per mile, an exclusive busway, $10 million per mile … Continue reading “more attempts to price transportation infrastructure construction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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