• @[email protected]
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    510 hours ago

    I presume they meant to put in railway infrastructure.

    Railways cost so much less than one highway, we could have a system basically from home to work.
    (eg smol trams to a midway se station to high-speed trains)

    • @CookieOfFortune
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      -15 hours ago

      Is that true in California? Caltrain is costing $5.15 billion per mile.

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        3 hours ago

        I note with interest that you are repeatedly posting the same cherry-picked factoid.

        Average cost per mile for new track in the USA can be anywhere from $100mil/mile to over $1billion/mile for complicated projects like tunneling. This is roughly 50% higher than Europe - most likely for the simple fact that they have a larger industry for it. These are both quite high on an international scale- China builds new track for 24-48mil USD per mile.