Check this out.
The cost of widening 485 along its Southern leg has suddenly plunged. The six-mile stretch between Johnston Road and South Blvd. is to be widened for the cost of $70 to 75m. — or roughly $12m. a mile.
Compare that to drip and drab approach of adding LTR mileage, which has now zoomed above $60m. from an average of $48m. for the McCrory Line.
Tell me again why we are talking at all about building additional train lines?
