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The cost to build one mile of 6 lane interstate in an urban area is estimated at 11 million dollars per mile. If you look at the estimated cost for the hyperloop, it seems to come out at around 25 million per mile. This isn't outside the realm of possibility at all, just a little more than twice that of traditional methods.


The hyperloop isn't a 6-lane interstate. It's an elevated track, some of it tunneled through rock.


The point I was making is that considering the huge upside, merely double the cost of a traditional highway seems like a very reasonable price.


It's not "double the cost". Nobody knows how much it's going to cost, but we know it costs more than Musk says it does.


11 million dollars per mile does not seem accurate. They recently widened the Turnpike in NJ from 6 to 12 lanes over a 35 mile stretch, and it cost $2.3 billion. That's $65 million per mile. And that was considered a successful project.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/nj-turnpike-widening-set-to-...




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