From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 14:37:36 MST
>I found that the cost per new rider for the
> system expansion came to over $25,000 per year for the 40 year life of
> the project. Projected increased ridership was 34,000, adjusted to
> 17,000, while project cost was originally around $7 billion, adjusted
> up to over $13 billion.
By the way, has anything like this cost blowout ever been known to happen to
those immense freeway projects that cover the USA (mostly at tax payers'
expense, I understand)? No, surely not.
Damien Broderick
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