Re-activating the defunct Rockaway Beach Branch line could cost up to $8 billion dollars and a one-seat ride to JFK Airport using the once-and-perhaps-future LIRR right of way could run to nearly $20 billion, according to a long-awaited report the MTA released last month. If the MTA’s numbers are to be believed, this report may serve not as a rallying cry for advocates to push for rail reactivation but rather an indication that the MTA’s inability to manage costs will back-burner any transit use for this ROW for years to come. Without an obvious political champion pushing this project, one could be forgiven for believing the inflated costs to be almost intentional...
Nobody is as capable of spending more for less than NYC. I do think though that Toronto seems to be going that way too, costs to build things in Toronto seem way higher than elsewhere in Canada.Meanwhile, they'll thinking about a New York City subway to JFK Airport...
Long-awaited Rockaway Beach Branch study reveals subway, LIRR options — and a high price tag
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The Millennium line extension in Vancouver is surprisingly barebones with only one entrance even at Broadway-City Hall. Cheap has a cost.Nobody is as capable of spending more for less than NYC. I do think though that Toronto seems to be going that way too, costs to build things in Toronto seem way higher than elsewhere in Canada.
The Millennium line extension in Vancouver is surprisingly barebones with only one entrance even at Broadway-City Hall. Cheap has a cost.
While I agree, 8 billion to reactivate an existing above ground 8km right of way, even you have to redo the track and stations is excessive.The Millennium line extension in Vancouver is surprisingly barebones with only one entrance even at Broadway-City Hall. Cheap has a cost.
And you might have to shut down the station in the process, pissing off everyone and increasing the cost of the project by at least a factor of 3.Maybe cheap is the way to go. You can always add more entrances and elevators and other things years later.
If only we'd just called the Scarborough LRT " The Scarborough above-ground Subway" it would probably have been built by now.
Built what? We already have one.If only we'd just called the Scarborough LRT " The Scarborough above-ground Subway" it would probably have been built by now.