tedede;c-56060 wrotejoshua_segal;c-56055 wroteMaking Mt. Hermon accessible to the people of Bangor via a light rail system may not be a bad idea. Calling it a feeder area makes sense. Passing it off as a destination resort is a stretch!
Recent light rail projects are costing $100 million per mile. 11.2 miles is over a billion dollars.
How about a used school bus or two for $50K and start with that.
Now I know why
@joshua_segal calls this the silly season.
I suspect the reason that it is $100M per mile is the cost of land acquisition in major metropolitan areas. Not having seen an estimate for the project, I don't have the details that you have. However, what you said, "a used school bus or two for $50K and start with that" does make sense.
I noticed a train station at the Jackson Gore base area at Okemo. I'm surprised that there hasn't been an experiment there as to what using it might do for the greater Ludlow area - but Okemo is a real destination resort; Mount Hermon is not.
BTW: I looked up the price of an acre of land in Manhattan to be about $27M. A 1-mile long, 30' wide strip of land is 3.5 acres, if you could even buy just the strip of land!
