Karl
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$70 million per mile. Including the cars. Urban freeway costs $39 million a mile -- not including the cars :2razz: (or the pollution, or the accidents, or the injuries -- all of which are a cost to society).For the cost to build the 20 mile light rail system in Phoenix, which was $1.4 billion [...]
So... for a $780 million 20-mile freeway, you could have bought 1,000 Bell 206B five-seat helicopters and ferried the 10,000 riders to and from work every day :mrgreen:
Or, you could have bought one $780 million teleportation device (pat. pending) from the Federation of Planets Corp. and simply beamed them back and forth to work, Scotty....