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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

MisterP

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2. and they have to build it because their HSR is *full*

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:43 PM

Apr 2015

that comes to $421M/mile--vs. ~$130-40M/mile for upgrading conventional routes into HSR: only one-fifth of what's going in in California is for the tracks themselves

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About the proposed line: mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2015 #1

and they have to build it because their HSR is *full* MisterP Apr 2015 #2

Did I say 75 billion dollars? I meant mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2015 #3

right, that's why maglev is second in line (or third?) after HSR MisterP Apr 2015 #4