09-05-2025, 09:18 PM
For a European comparison point I will give you Tampere, Finland. Phase 1/2 was fairly similar in many ways to our LRT. 10.2 km cost about 390M EUR plus 80M for 20 cars of rolling stock; this completed maybe two years ago, soon after the LRT. If I use a rough 1.5 exchange rate and guess at a few years of inflation adjustment that's maybe $750M or about $75M per km, not far off our phase 1 costs. (Our phase 2 is more complex and expensive to build than phase 1, whether 3x per km or not.)