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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Cost of public vs. private transportation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.143738.7285@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 14:37:38 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.222201.27582@s1.gov> <21978@venera.isi.edu> <76453@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Jul28.180636.7446@wdl.loral.com>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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- In article <1992Jul28.180636.7446@wdl.loral.com> mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar) writes:
- >In article <76453@ut-emx.uucp> johncobb@ut-emx.cc.utexas.edu (John W. Cobb) writes:
- >>|> Nothing succeeds like real data. In LA the subway costs
- >>|> 300 M$/mile, exclusive of maintenance charges. {...}
- >
- >The LA subway is a special case and should not be used for comparision to
- >anywhere else. The above quoted cost is correct bu is 3 to 4 times what
- >the cost almost anywhere esle would bee for two reasons:
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- The MARTA system has consumed >$90 billion dollars for the 62.5 miles
- completed since construction started in 1969. That's $1.44 billion per
- mile. Of course that's *inclusive* of maintenance, rolling stock purchase,
- executive salaries, etc. It doesn't include energy purchases, or operator
- salaries.
-
- In *any* existing city, to serve peak transport areas, the system will
- have to be routed through the most expensive commercial real estate. That
- almost by definition means underground tunnels.
-
- Gary
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