>>1699326There was also the time they concluded that building a 10-mile rail tunnel under Indian Pass (i.e. the middle of nowhere) for the Uinta Basin Railway would cost $2 billion, so to cut costs they want to make a ton of hideous curves going up and over the pass instead. The environmental impact of that is severe enough the whole project might get canceled as a result.
The Ceneri Base Tunnel (newly built in Switzerland) cost $2 billion for 10 miles of tunnel - including two bores with HSR-capable track. The Uinta Basin Railway is meant to be a single-track freight railroad.
Lots of nonsense like this. If they're going to undertake these projects I'd prefer they didn't take up the entire budget for the department of transportation to do it.
