On 24 Jun 2003 at 15:28, Randall Clague wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:36:07 -0700, "Donald Qualls"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I say again, I'm talking about a cross between a cannon and subway, not
> >something that requires drilling through semi-plastic mantle rock.
>
> Look into how much subway track you can lay with $70,000,000, and you
> will be dismayed at the near term prospects of high speed subways.
>
Yes. IIRC, the cost for the four BART stations that opened this Sunday
was $1.5B. OK, the stations are extra cost (and I don't know if right-of-
way purchase is included) -- but that's for the run from Daly City to SFO --
a fairly short distance. And that's above ground.
More representative figures could be uncovered with a bit o' Googling.
Probably the closest we could get would be to multiply the total cost of
the Chunnel (was it 22 miles long?) by the factor needed to make it span
the USA.
And, despite the transatlantic tunnel study I saw on the Discovery
Channel's _Extreme Engineering_ recently, I worry about the effect of
earthquakes.
Chris W.
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