• BlameThePeacock
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    1 year ago

    One line from Vancouver to Halifax is 5800km

    It’s currently estimated to be between $20-40m dollars per kilometer. That puts it at at least $120 billion at the low end to build but probably closer to $200 billion in reality. Then there are costs to actually run it.

    That’s about 1/6th of the entire national debt just to build a train service that would still take 2 days to get across the country, and there are operating costs on top of that each year.

    How would it be a better value that just continuing to use airplanes?

    • aDuckk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for your reply. That cost definitely puts it into perspective, especially if it doesn’t factor building stations and buying land in or around cities, delays & screwups, etc