CT Post reporter Brian Lockhart provides more details on train station costs.
If you’re going to ask for a new train stop, you might as well go for broke, even if it triples the price.
After initially courting the state to help build a $48 million Metro-North Railroad station and 1,000-space parking lot for the city’s East Side, officials have now decided it should also accommodate Amtrak’s high-speed rail, at a cost of $146.1 million.
That means building center-island platforms, rather than just side platforms, to help juggle trains traveling at different speeds to different destinations and avoid bottlenecks.
Full story here.
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Is this déjà vu? It is what it is. It is the future! End of conversation.
Consider this:
Connecticut has a population of 3.597 million people
divide $146,000,000 by the population and you get a cost of
$40,589.38 dollars per person.
Spread that over how many years you choose, include interest.
It looks like a lot of money for a bankrupt state.
Something wrong here, this is a joke!
Black Rockin,
Your math is what the city uses in their budgets, it is actually $40.58 per person.
🙂 Omg, there’s a Republican we haven’t heard from in awhile. Welcome back, Marc!
Thank you, Mark. Good to hear from you. Hope all is well.
A high-speed train that makes as many stops as a local.
OIB.
Hey Gents, I hope you are all well. Steven, I really need to have a long talk with you, along with some possible shock therapy.
Bridgeport needs another train station. So many people want to get out of here.
IT’S ABOUT THE PARKING.
Hector,
Isn’t there plenty of parking downtown and at Ffld Metro? I never have an issue with parking.
I am totally on board with this!