True, most projects do take more than a 6 digits, but BART is not your
average "trolley."

I was thinking of the Red Cars in LA and wasn't cost adjusting for today's
dollars.

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> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of William Chops Westfield
> Sent: 2005 Jan 03, Mon 20:20
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] Perspectives on the Earthquake Tsunami net
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> >> Yet: On the roads, ~60,000 die EACH YEAR, and cities can't raise a 
> >> few hundred thousand for a trolley or commuter train.
> 
> "A few hundred thousand"?  Gee, that sounds reasonable.  Too 
> bad it's off by a factor of 10000 or so.  (For instance,  the 
> 8.7 mile BART extension  to SF airport cost approximately 1.5 
> Billion, and SF Muni's operating budget is about $400 million:
>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Muni
> (and SF isn't very big.))
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