Monorails are more expensive to build than freeways. Freeways are more expensive to build than railroads.
If you want to save money build railroads. Freeways are not free either.
Freeways are paid by the users, via fuel tax. By and large, the more you use, the more tax you pay.
We don’t need any new transportation lines.
Move to, or away from, what ever quality/price/choice line you like.
If WG likes monorails, move to Seattle. If you like palm trees and beaches, move to Florida. If you like urban elevated railroads, move to New York.
The Las Vegas monorail cost $142 million per mile.
The Orange County, CA light rail (85% elevated) cost $101 million per mile.
I would guess that there is a lot of variability in the cost of a freeway, depending on the number of bridges
“Monorails are more expensive to build than freeways. Freeways are more expensive to build than railroads.
If you want to save money build railroads. Freeways are not free either.”
I totally agree. If we could see the cost of the various modes of transportation and actually choose which ones to spend our money on, people could make logical decisions about how to get to work and where to live.
As it is now, we are involuntarily taxed and the money is “given back” to us (at a huge discount) in the forms of means of transportation, which we may or may not have chosen had we had the choice of where to put our money.
I don’t like paying thousands of dollars in taxes every year that goes to building roads that I have to spend thousands of dollars (on a vehicle, insurance and gas) to use. Don’t get me wrong, I like my car. But if I could take all that money and spend it on either living closer to my job or some other form of transportation, I may do it.
I will end my fantasy now.