Comment 69104

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted September 06, 2011 at 14:44:56 in reply to Comment 69091

Thanks for this interesting link.

However, is also a mistake to assume that Canadian LRT costs would be similar these American tunnelled rail costs. The article is a bit misleading in comparing American subway costs with recent French LRT (surface) costs in Paris, which are obviously going to be much lower.

In particular, one comment on the article points out that Canadian costs for recent surface rail construction in Montreal and Vancouver is much lower than American costs, more in line with the cheaper European costs.

The article focuses on underground tunneled lines, which are much more expensive than surface LRT and more liable to cost over-runs. As one commentator pointed out, it would be good to see costs for surface LRT lines.

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