MARTA to make an $8 billion pitch to change the face of Atlanta (Smyrna: summer, Polish) - Georgia (GA) - Page 194 - City-Data Forum

fieldm · 05-04-2016, 06:07 AM

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/m...bus-rapid.html

Adding a heavy rail line that would connect Doraville with the Mall of Georgia, and include a spur that reaches out on Georgia Highway 316 to Lawrenceville, could cost as much as $7 billion, according to a Gwinnett transportation official.

Gwinnett Transportation Director Alan Chapman told county officials Tuesday that based on costs of similar projects in the region and across the country, bus rapid transit could cost about $660 million, while light rail could cost $3.36 billion and heavy rail an estimated $7.05 billion, reports Gwinnett Daily Post.

MattCW · 05-04-2016, 06:36 AM

Where are they getting th hat LRT is half as much as HRT unless they are planning to half-do LRT and run it in the streets?

alco89 · 05-04-2016, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by MattCW

Where are they getting th hat LRT is half as much as HRT unless they are planning to half-do LRT and run it in the streets?

That struck me as odd too! Even running it on the streets would likely cost more than that.

cqholt · 05-04-2016, 07:25 AM

Focusing on the core, where voters and politicians want transit is a smart move and will pay off when MARTA goes to expand further into the suburbs.

jsvh · 05-04-2016, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by MattCW

Where are they getting th hat LRT is half as much as HRT unless they are planning to half-do LRT and run it in the streets?

Agreed. They might be doing it as "streetcar" where it is at grade and has to wait at traffic lights.

And for that price for "BRT", I bet they are really going to do it as more ART where it still mixes in with traffic.