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

[Madhav Badami, Prof.]

Yikes, yikes ... I missed a few thousand zeros ... mea culpa. I just realized my massive blunder a few minutes after I headed off on my shopping trip (in my car, I must confess). A million apologies. Just got back ... will re-do the calculation.

Madhav

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Madhav G. Badami, PhD
School of Urban Planning and McGill School of Environment
McGill University
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-----Original Message-----
From: sustran-discuss-bounces+madhav.g.badami=mcgill.ca at list.jca.apc.org on behalf of Pendakur
Sent: Sun 5/6/2007 12:04 PM
To: 'Global 'South' Sustainable Transport'
Subject: [sustran] Re: M1 Expansion to cost 21 million pounds per mile ...
 
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
Professor Emeritus, University of BC 
Honorary Professor, China National Academy of Sciences; 
Director, ITDP (NY) & Secretary, ABE90-TRB

President, Pacific Policy and Planning Associates
702- 1099 Marinaside Cresecent, Vancouver, BC
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-----Original Message-----
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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"As for the future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable it."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
Madhav G. Badami, PhD
School of Urban Planning and McGill School of Environment
McGill University
Macdonald-Harrington Building
815 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC, H3A 2K6, Canada
 
Phone: 514-398-3183 (Work); 514-486-2370 (Home)
Fax: 514-398-8376; 514-398-1643
URLs: www.mcgill.ca/urbanplanning
www.mcgill.ca/mse
e-mail: madhav.badami at mcgill.ca


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