A small stretch of track in NJ will be upgraded so that Amtrak trains can arrive a little over a minute sooner. The cost $4.5 million per second…
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Are they installing used track that will have the same maintenance profile and remaining life that the old track would have had?
If not, the $4.5 million per second calculation is…dumb. It would be like buying a new 300HP car to replace a 280HP car and dividing the cost by 20HP to determine a cost per HP.
@ottnott,
no matter; it is a total waste of your tax dollars….forget the math
If you want me to forget the math, don’t emphasize it in your intro.
So, math aside, the article has this to say:
“will improve service reliability on the tracks that also carry New Jersey Transit and Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority trains”
And Wikipedia adds:
“The Acela has become popular with business travelers and by some reckoning has captured over half of the market share of air or train travelers between Washington and New York.[5] Between New York and Boston the Acela Express has up to a 37% share of the combined train and air market.”
No, we wouldn’t want to spend any money to improve the reliability and speed of that line. Total waste.
For $450 million, we could pay for 2 DAYS of the cost of maintaining our Afghanistan operations at “surge” levels.
There’s no bowl big enough for that swirl.