Comment by theptip
9 years ago
Those Crossrail numbers give $0.2B/mile, including a lot of miles of track that aren't tunnels. After digging a bit I found this, which is a good summary:
https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-r...
It seems that $1B/__km__ (not mile, you're right) is sadly par for the course in the US, and Crossrail passes that threshold too. Projects elsewhere are below that threshold though.
No the total number include the tunnels, the tracks outside and 40 (FORTY) underground stations. The specific figure of 1.25B£ is taken from the official documents for 18km of tunnels alone. So do you think that an unknown blog that throws some figures without any reference must be more accurate than the official figures, reported in public documents accessible to everyone, that explicitly says that 18km of tunnels ALONE have been built for 1.25B£. Next are you going to post a link from some chem-trails website?
No need to get stroppy, calm down.