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Originally Posted by sober2ndthought
the cost of building Calgary's LRT was 24.5 Million USD per mile
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Source?
Like I said before, beware of any cost figure reported by Calgary Transit. If you used the 600-or-so million figure listed on CT's website before it was being taken down, it is actually the as-spent cost (ie. no inflation) of the track and station work (ie. no land acquisition, train, etc) of initial segments (ie. no extension) for each of the three line. In other word, it is the cost for track and station for the University-Anderson, 10th St-Whitehorn segments in 1981-1987 dollars.
Sadly, so many people believe this figure as the final cost for the system and they're spreading around the internet claiming you can build some kind of LRT for as cheap as 15M/km.
I believe there was a presentation made by CT a few years back state that the total investiment, adjusted for inflation, is actually around 2-3 billions, and WLRT was not included in this.