[sustran] M1 Expansion to cost 21 million pounds per mile ...

[Madhav Badami, Prof.]

Hello all,

I saw this report in the Guardian just now ... the M1 widening is estimated to cost 21 million pounds per mile:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2073611,00.html

At that rate, you could buy, with what it would cost to widen just one mile of the M1, every man, woman and child in the UK a bus of their own (assuming a 40-foot low-floor bus costs about 250,000 pounds), and you would have 6 million pounds left over for whatever else you may care to do.

Madhav Badami

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