ValueSubtracted@startrek.website to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 days agoFeds announce almost $2B for 45 hybrid battery-diesel Via Rail passenger locomotiveswww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up135
arrow-up135external-linkFeds announce almost $2B for 45 hybrid battery-diesel Via Rail passenger locomotiveswww.cbc.caValueSubtracted@startrek.website to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareFlareHeart@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days ago$2B wouldn’t build very much rail. Taking into account all of the prep, equipment, labour costs, etc. $2B won’t go very far. Building rail is not easy or cheap.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoFor comparison: 18km of highway expansion (adding more lanes to an existing highway) in Ontario had an estimated contract cost of $639.8 million. https://www.infrastructureontario.ca/en/what-we-do/projectssearch/highway-401-expansion-project/
$2B wouldn’t build very much rail. Taking into account all of the prep, equipment, labour costs, etc. $2B won’t go very far. Building rail is not easy or cheap.
For comparison: 18km of highway expansion (adding more lanes to an existing highway) in Ontario had an estimated contract cost of $639.8 million.
https://www.infrastructureontario.ca/en/what-we-do/projectssearch/highway-401-expansion-project/