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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!pacbell.com!pbhye!mjvande
- From: mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
- Subject: Re: Alliance for a Paving Moratorium (Alert)
- Reply-To: mjvande@PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:09:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.150919.7450@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
- References: <1992Dec23.005006.2291@pbhye.PacBell.COM> <tumbucs@sgi.sgi.com>
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- -- --- Light rail is more cost-effective than freeway construction.
- -- Estimates for urban freeway construction range as high as $1
- -- billion per mile, while new light rail costs only $10 to $16
- -- million per mile.
- -
- -Where do they get this stuff? The light rail built in Santa Clara
- -county was far more expensive than this, while the freeways were far
- -less expensive. Don't they think they can make their point without
- -gross exaggeration?
-
- It's not much of an exaggeration. The Cypress Freeway will cost over
- a $billion for 1.5 miles. You must be talking about construction of
- additional lanes in existing ROW. What about highway 85??
-