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onstructionworld.in | Mumbai's Underground Metro Project to Finish by June 2024

Upon completion, the fully underground North-South metro corridor will comprise 27 stations and interchange points linking with Mumbai's suburban railway, Monorail, and existing Metro lines (Metro-1, Metro 2B, and Metro 6). The project is expected to cater to over 1.6 million daily commuters...

rumble.com, The Cost of Subway Systems, A/V (EN)
Host Christy Ai and Professor Dr. Allan Zarembski delve into the essential societal benefits of metro systems in urban mobility, despite the significant operating expenses involved. Which countries have the best and worst, least and most profitable rail systems?
etrorailtoday | Phase 1 of Metor Line 2 will be fully operational by May 2024, 19 Feb

Navigating to Driveless Train Operations
In response to the growing global trend of authonomous trasportation, Managing Director of Mumbai Metro Rail Corp. Ashwini Bhide, discusses the potential for driverless train operations on Metro Line 3. The plan entails implementing unmanned train operations (UTO). However, she highlights two intermediate stages preceding UTO: automatic train protection and automatic train operation (ATO). Currently, the focus is on achieving ATO ceertification.

by Cat on Thu May 2nd, 2024 at 11:06:04 PM EST
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latimes | Despite some progress, state's high-speed rail is $100 billion short and many years from reality, 21 Mar

hsr.ca.gov. Project Sections
Voters first approved a high-speed rail proposal in 2008 that would connect Los Angeles to San Francisco by 2020. That end date has changed considerably over time. In its latest projection, the rail authority goal is for the the 494-mile system, which includes a line from Los Angeles to Anaheim, to serve riders by 2040. But that timeline is not set. The current focus centers on the Central Valley, where officials estimate the 171-mile line from Merced to Bakersfield will be finished between 2030 and 2033.
ChatGPT Sky | California mocked over 'billion-dollar' bridge to nowhere, 5 May
The California High-Speed Rail Authority recently publicised one of the completed sections of construction—finished back in 2018 and reported to cost $1bn on its own. This is a 0.3-mile stretch of bridge, called The Fresno River Viaduct in Madera County, and it has attracted ridicule for going from nowhere to nowhere.
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There's economic and social advantages for connecting areas in the Central Valley to "thriving coastal economies because we have a very unequal society in California," Elkind said. But no one knows when that will definitively happen.
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Officials estimate it could cost about $35 billion to finish the first line from Bakersfield to Merced and roughly $100 billion more to complete the route from Los Angeles to San Francisco&mdaah;about $100 billion more than what was originally proposed years ago. And the source of most funds is unclear.
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nypost | Mayor Adams visits Rome, praises its subway construction, 10 May

...Adams marveled at the rapid progress of Rome's new subway line—which is slated to open next year—and compared it to New York City's long-stalled $7.7 billion Second Avenue extension.
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"This is an amazing feat to see this built right by the Coliseum. It's going to allow passengers and visitors and tourists to come take the metro right to the Coliseum," he said in the footage, posted on X Friday morning....

by Cat on Fri May 10th, 2024 at 11:34:12 PM EST
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California high-speed rail project is late, over budget. But there's no $11B bridge | Fact check, 14 May malign Russian influence?

A May 5 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a picture of a viaduct over the Fresno River.
"This stretch of bridge right here in California was just completed and cost get this 11 billion dollars!" the post reads. "Also took just 9 years. Will be used for high-speed rail."
The post was shared more than 2,000 times in nine days.
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The system was planned to cover 500 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles for $33 billion and be operational by 2020. But the full build-out is now projected to cost as much as $128 billion, according to the authority. Yet those cost overruns and delays are far less than what is claimed in the post. It is impossible for the Fresno River Viaduct, the 1,600-foot-long structure pictured in the post, to cost $11 billion, based on publicly available information.
Augie Blancas, a spokesperson for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, said the body cannot break out a cost for the viaduct alone because it is part of what the authority called the first "significant" construction contract awarded for the 32-mile central California segment, and that entire package of projects has not been completed yet. However, he noted the authority has approved about $2 billion worth of invoices for that package.
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well, alrighty then

by Cat on Wed May 15th, 2024 at 12:57:27 AM EST
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