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> Officials had started planning for a street-level rail connection between booming Ontario International Airport and a commuter train station 4 miles away, with an estimated cost north of $1 billion.

Tangential but this is crazy. A cursory search tells me high speed rail cost US $17-21m per km in China and US $25-39m per km in Europe in 2014, according to World Bank.[1]

[1] https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/07/10/c...

parent oefrha 3 years ago

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