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Originally Posted by flight_from_kamakura
mm, i just read that the average cost of street level light rail in north america in 2009 came out to about 15 million per km.
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I don't know where you get this number from. Here is the estimated* cost per km for the recent LRT lines in North America:
Toronto Eglinton - 140M/km
<< Insert Canada Line here (@ 111M/km) >>
Seattle Central Link - 110M/km
Los Angeles Gold Line - 105M/km
<< Insert Expo Line here (@ 92M/km) >>
San Francisco T Line - 90M/km
Edmonton South LRT - 85M/km
Calgary West LRT - 80M/km
San Diego Mission Valley - 70M/km
<< Insert Millennium Line here (@ 69M/km) >>
Denver T-REX - 65M/km
<< Insert Surrey Extension to KG here (@ 64M/km) >>
Portland I-205 - 55M/km
Pheonix LRT - 50M/km
Dallas Green Line - 50M/km
St. Louis Cross-County - 50M/km
Salt Lake City TRAX - 35M/km
(* for 2005-6 openings, cost x 1.1 for inflation and 1.2 for currency; for recent openings, cost x 1.1 for currency)
I think the ones near the bottom are mostly street-level, and even those doesn't come close to 15M/km (unless, well, you build a line without train and stations). The last 3 have average station spacing of 2km or more; while the Portland one is using reserved ROW - so I guess that would be similar to Surrey Interurban LRT. The only thing I can find that is close to 15M/km is St. Clair in Toronto, and that is an upgrade, not rebuilding from scratch.