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The first phase is costing $2.75 billion, the authority said. Early estimates had placed costs of the second phase in the same range. The new price range increases the cost by at least $690 million and potentially twice as much...

So that's $4.1 billion for the second phase ($2.75 billion plus 2 x $690 million).

The second phase of the project, covering 11 1/2 miles and six stations

So that's about $360 million PER MILE. Yeah, that's a good use of funds!

I wonder what Willie Green would say? The last light rail system built in the US - Seattle's Link - was $180 million per mile. Now this is at $360 million per mile. And Willie wants to deploy tens of thousands of miles of high speed rail lines in the US? A network of 20,000 miles (2 transcontinental lines and a half-dozen N/S and long spurs) would cost $3.6 to $7.2 TRILLION. Just for the lines.

Hey Willie, those numbers sound about right?