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To: Mr. Jeeves
extension costs now are running about a billion dollars a mile

The Airport extension was 7.5 miles for $1.5 billion.

32 posted on 07/26/2007 6:57:38 AM PDT by Andrew Byler
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To: Andrew Byler

Yeah, but the airport extension was completed a while back, and construction costs have skyrocketed lately. They’ve estimated four billion to extend four miles from Pittsburg/Bay Point to Antioch, for example, probably killing that idea. It’s going to cost 13 to 16 billion to extend from Fremont to San Jose, and it isn’t that many miles. Further BART expansion isn’t economically justifiable any more.


33 posted on 07/26/2007 7:03:23 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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