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

[Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory]

Hi,

I calculated that the projected cost of the entire widening project (5.1 
billion pounds) divided by the population (about 60 million) means that 
every children, woman and man is paying 85 pounds for it. Is this right?

- T

Pendakur wrote:
> Madhav, what am I missing here?
>
> 1 million pounds will give us 4 buses, 21 million gives us 84 buses.  This
> is not enough to provide the provide the entire population of UK with a bus
> each!
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Setty 
> Dr. V. Setty Pendakur
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> From: sustran-discuss-bounces+pendakur=interchange.ubc.ca at list.jca.apc.org
> [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+pendakur=interchange.ubc.ca at list.jca.apc.org
> ] On Behalf Of Madhav Badami, Prof.
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 8:00 AM
> To: sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org
> Subject: [sustran] M1 Expansion to cost 21 million pounds per mile ...
>
> 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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