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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Spot on with all of this, especially the bolded. it's really hard to make sense of the costing at this point, but it's just insane for the city to claim that their Shepard-Eau Claire+tunnel is cheaper than Shepard-7th+elevated
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Remaining costs only should be considered here.
The city essentially was saying they had spent over a billion and had a billion in wrap up costs to cancel the project. A bunch of that is rail cars but a lot of the remainder was being spent on things like utility relocates
So do I think that under ground stup is about the same as elevated to Shepard? That seems reasonable and seems what the government is claiming the redacted report says.
Would I be surprised if the consultant didn’t have access to current sunk costs in the first option or wind down costs and that makes up the difference? Not really.
I also don’t think the city is saying Shepard -Eau Claire is cheaper. I think they are saying Eau Claire to nowhere is cheaper