Comment 65039

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted June 22, 2011 at 13:08:17

What's the difference between a few hundred million put toward LRT or high speed rail and a few hundred million spent on new highways? The money spent on highways is in many ways politically invisible.

The highway-building industry is thoroughly entrenched, and well connected to other dominant industries like auto-making and suburban sprawl. Transit just doesn't have this kind of political/economic clout, even if it does have the public will on side.

Is LRT mind-blowingly expensive? Yes - it's been compared in some cities to buying every family a Buick. A highway, though, can also cost tens of millions per km in an urban area (look at the Linc/Red Hill), and requires us to buy our own Buick.

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