From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 14:50:46 MST
In a message dated 2/11/2003 3:40:39 PM Central Standard Time,
thespike@earthlink.net writes: 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,
You are getting way beyond my humble ability to calculate -- I just
don't have the data.
For example, Looking at our two alternative systems (the El and the
superhighway) it is not immediately apparent to me which is the most
expensive to build (initially) or to maintain. Then there is the expense of
the rail cars versus the private cars. I do know that the drivers pay for
the private cars. In each case the biggest item seems to be cost of the
land. In some cases the superhighway seems to require a wider swath of land
but as we get into the city it doesn't.
Ron h.
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