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Maintenance cost of rail is significantly cheaper. Don't sink more into bad design.

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• xyzzyz 4y ago
  It costs Amtrak over $300k a year to maintain a single mile of track on the Northeast corridor. For comparison, it costs around $30k to maintain a single mile of US interstate, i.e. only 10% of the cost to maintain rail track. In what sense rail is cheaper to maintain, exactly?
  • brewdad 4y ago
    Citation needed. I can believe that we spend $30k a year filling potholes on a mile of interstate but every 10 years we have to resurface it and every 30-50 years we have to completely rebuild it.
    • xyzzyz 4y ago
      Just Google it, it’s not hard. Are you really surprised that rail also costs money to maintain?