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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
There'll absolutely no chance that a cut and cover tunnel would cost anywhere close to $550 million. The construction cost for the Airport Trail tunnel is $220 million. The tunnel you are proposing would need to be significantly wider, nearly 10 times as long, significantly more complicated to build, and would still require buying out dozens of homes. I can guarantee that it would cost more than the $1.5 billion price tag of the other proposal.
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I don't know where you got your information that cut and cover will be over 1.5 billion. Do you have a source or are you eyeballing it?
The price quoted is in fact 550 million for cut and cover. I know there are people that prefer the reserve route for a variety of reaons, but the cut and cover method is quoted to be cheaper, a third of the cost.
The airport tunnel is expensive because it has planes driving on it. The ring road would have a park over most of it.
They will go over budget no matter what plan they choose. So might as well go with the cheaper one.
Page 4 for plan c.
http://www.calgaryarea.com/sw/chinoo...20Plan%20C.pdf