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To: Olog-hai

$200 million per mile for 1400 miles is $280 BILLION.


109 posted on 05/13/2015 2:04:01 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That’s what the federal government would want to charge to build such a railroad, to be sure. Private companies can do it for less than a twentieth of the cost, if so high.

Of course, the FRA would institute maddening requirements that no other high-speed railroad has, including 30-foot track centers (distance from center of one track to the other), among other things.


112 posted on 05/13/2015 2:06:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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