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Wait, they've spend 1.5 billion dollars for 30 miles of train? That's only 50 million per mile! Most city light-rail projects in the US are 150 to 200 million

• ggg9990 8y ago
  That’s what privatization can get you. They’re probably not paying some union “inspectors” $70/hr to sit around playing poker.
  • dx034 8y ago
    No, that's what existing infrastructure gets you.
• yardie 8y ago
  The track was already there. $50mm/mi is just new stations, trains, and signaling.
  • zaroth 8y ago
    And they still don’t have signaling that qualifies for going >= 80mph. I don’t get it?
• makomk 8y ago
  They're using existing tracks and stations, as I understand it. So they basically managed to hit a third to a quarter of the cost of actually building a new rail line without building anything.
  • _delirium 8y ago
    It's quite a bit cheaper than that per-mile for the existing segment. Not sure where the above poster got "30 miles" from, since there are already 70 miles of track in service (Miami-W. Palm Beach). The $1.5 billion figure is for upgrades to the entire existing Miami-Cocoa corridor, which is 200 miles, so about $7.5m per mile in upgrades. Another $1.5b is budgeted to construct the new 40-mile line from Cocoa to Orlando, so that'll be $37.5m/mile for the new-construction portion if that comes in on-budget (remains to be seen).