“is $135 million per mile!”
A new freeway in the middle of nowhere is about $15M per mile. Double it due to the much higher weight of the (non-existent) trains, and it’s $30M per mile.
Add a lane to I-5, and it costs about $5M per mile (the vast majority of road bridges there can easily handle 3 lanes, if not 5 lanes, and trust me, I’ve driven it probably 50 times).
But let’s be real...the LAST THING they want are functional freeways.