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Re: Question about Calif High Speed Rail
Author: Graham Buxton
Date: 04-16-2017 - 13:53
david vartanoff Wrote:
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> Of the various figures given, if every CA resident
> had to pay $50 a year for the next 30 both to fund
> building and operation, I would be willing.
Perhaps, but $50 per year per CA resident is clearly too low to pay for both construction and operational subsidies.
While the official CAHSR capital cost is supposed to be about $69 billion, nobody actually believes that will be the final total.
[www.latimes.com]
So just for grins, lets guess at $100 billion construction cost. Divide that by 39 million California residents, and we have $2564 per resident. That is just construction costs not operation.
$2564 per resident / 30 years = $85.64 per resident per year. Every man, woman, child.
Now lets talk about operational subsidies ....
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> Of the various figures given, if every CA resident
> had to pay $50 a year for the next 30 both to fund
> building and operation, I would be willing.
Perhaps, but $50 per year per CA resident is clearly too low to pay for both construction and operational subsidies.
While the official CAHSR capital cost is supposed to be about $69 billion, nobody actually believes that will be the final total.
[www.latimes.com]
So just for grins, lets guess at $100 billion construction cost. Divide that by 39 million California residents, and we have $2564 per resident. That is just construction costs not operation.
$2564 per resident / 30 years = $85.64 per resident per year. Every man, woman, child.
Now lets talk about operational subsidies ....
