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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!sun-barr!decwrl!adobe!pngai
- From: pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Alliance for a Paving Moratorium (Alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.174540.11794@adobe.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:45:40 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.005006.2291@pbhye.PacBell.COM> <tumbucs@sgi.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
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- In article <tumbucs@sgi.sgi.com> jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.005006.2291@pbhye.PacBell.COM>, mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman) writes:
- >> Estimates for urban freeway construction range as high as $1
- >> billion per mile
- >
- >Where do they get this stuff?
-
- I would not be surprised if the new Century Freeway (coming soon to
- an LA near you!) cost close to $1 billion/mile. It has interchanges
- with at least three very large freeways in a fairly short distance
- (maybe 10-20 miles?). Talk about big/high/expensive connecting ramps...
-
- I suspect the Century will be LA's last new freeway.
-
- Whether it's fair for Mr. Vandeman to use such numbers is a different issue.
-
- --
- My opinions are my own.
-