Now just what do you mean by that question?
NJ Transit’s River Line (diesel light rail) is 34 miles long on one of the country’s oldest railroads (the Camden and Amboy), and it cost $32 million per mile, which is itself a lot of dough for rebuilding an existing railroad—but it is half the cost per unit length of this BRT corridor.
I don’t know if you’re trying to justify spending on BRT, but I suggest that we all avoid playing politicians’ games ourselves.
“NJ Transit’s River Line (diesel light rail) is 34 miles long on one of the country’s oldest railroads”
“the Camden and Amboy”
Yea, I’m sure there are a whole hell of a lot of commuters on that route. Yea, if you into connecting RUST BELT cities and places, you can do that very cheaply, simply because the ROWs are there and no one wants to get near them.
The idea isn’t to build a transit system in a location because it happens to be cheap there (like Camden, LOL), it’s to build it where there is DEMAND. Sorry if that confuses you.