$300 Million a Mile for 8-mph Transit
4th December 2020
The United States is not the only country where transit agencies are spending far too much money building obsolete infrastructure. TransportNSW (for New South Wales) has spent AU$3.1 billion (US$2.3 billion) building a 12-kilometer (7.5-mile) South East light-rail line in Sydney that’s slower than buses making the same journey. For those whoa are counting, that’s more than $300 million a mile in U.S. dollars, putting it well above the average U.S. light-rail project.