04-25-2023, 05:45 PM
I don't really see how it can be inflation. While I understand it's a complex project, the bare bones of it are pretty basic, especially with the bridges/viaducts they're saying will cost so much. It's essentially just concrete and steel required to build those. Even the tracks on the roads etc aren't complex...again, just concrete, the rails, ballast etc. You can build a 40 floor building for millions, so how is it that some bridges made of the same materials is costing billions?
The most expensive things should presumably be the LRVs themselves, the signaling technology, the electric wires, substations, internet networking and so on. But even that should still be within reason...we built 19km worth of our first LRT line here for less than 1 billion and that included the basic stuff like construction of the actual LRT line but also all the equipment/technology needed to run on it. The Cambridge line is to be around a similar distance. So what is suddenly costing billions more? I really cannot see it being the construction of bridges...it just doesn't seem like that should cost so much to construct.
The most expensive things should presumably be the LRVs themselves, the signaling technology, the electric wires, substations, internet networking and so on. But even that should still be within reason...we built 19km worth of our first LRT line here for less than 1 billion and that included the basic stuff like construction of the actual LRT line but also all the equipment/technology needed to run on it. The Cambridge line is to be around a similar distance. So what is suddenly costing billions more? I really cannot see it being the construction of bridges...it just doesn't seem like that should cost so much to construct.