Toronto transit projects

[danbrotherston]

Interesting that it's costing about 4.8x the cost of ION.

Where did you get 4.8x??

The ION is costing $1.9B vs $2.5B for this Finch Line.

(Older article, so the final cost of ION might be higher: https://www.therecord.com/news-story/488...-released/)

While it is strange to include the 30 year operations budget, they appear to have done so for the Finch Line announcement as well, which may have led to the original 4.8x cost estimate, I'm not sure.

However, the routes are different length, with Finch being 11 km to our 19 km.  

By my math Finch is working out to 2.3x the per mile cost of our LRT.  timio lays out some pretty reasonable explanations for why.  Timio's explanations show why it's really quite hard to compare costs between systems.