• New Heavy Rail Dulles Metrorail Extension
  23 mile system
  7 Stations – 60,000 passengers/ day

  Total Cost: $5 Billion
  Cost per mile: $200 Million

• New Monorail (for Dulles type extension)
  23 mile system
  7 Stations – 60,000 passengers/ day

  Total Cost: $5 Billion
  Cost per mile: $200 Million

• New HOT lanes on I-95
  70 mile system for 120,000 cars/day

  Total Cost: $1 Billion
  Cost per mile: $15 Millon

• Water Line Metro
  45 mile system on 2 sides of Potomac
  (90-mile system) 20 downstream stations –
  3 Metrorail Transfer Stations 120,000 riders/day

  Total Cost: $400 million
  Cost per mile: $4.5 million

IF the politicians are stewards of public moneys, THEN high speed commuter hovercraft system wins hands down.

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