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Re: San Jose's Light Rail after 25 years----inefficient etc
Author: RG
Date: 12-28-2012 - 12:02
DCMcGill Wrote:
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> The original price tag on this project from South
> San Jose to the north side was $382 million.
> Shortly after the ground breaking ceremony, it
> soared to $500 millionish. The last I saw, for
> this first leg, was $780 millionish. The article
> says that the entire system cost $2 billion? That
> means all the other segments were $1.2 billion.
> Seems a little low, but who's counting. It was a
> mess to begin with. It didn't connect with the
> airport, it went through downtown at 10 MPH, the
> Tamien Station had to be built to connect with
> CalTrain, but should have connected with the
> downtown SP depot.
>
> But in the end, Rod Diridon got his name on the
> San Jose Depot and Norm Mineta on the San Jose
> International sign for this enormous boondoogle.
> They should have named some prisons after them!!!
>
> DCMcGill
Y'all have a short memory. The original concept for the light rail was to bypass downtown; however political powers wanted a downtown focus. Hence, the alignment we have today.
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> The original price tag on this project from South
> San Jose to the north side was $382 million.
> Shortly after the ground breaking ceremony, it
> soared to $500 millionish. The last I saw, for
> this first leg, was $780 millionish. The article
> says that the entire system cost $2 billion? That
> means all the other segments were $1.2 billion.
> Seems a little low, but who's counting. It was a
> mess to begin with. It didn't connect with the
> airport, it went through downtown at 10 MPH, the
> Tamien Station had to be built to connect with
> CalTrain, but should have connected with the
> downtown SP depot.
>
> But in the end, Rod Diridon got his name on the
> San Jose Depot and Norm Mineta on the San Jose
> International sign for this enormous boondoogle.
> They should have named some prisons after them!!!
>
> DCMcGill
Y'all have a short memory. The original concept for the light rail was to bypass downtown; however political powers wanted a downtown focus. Hence, the alignment we have today.
