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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSan Francisco Chronicle: Building BART cars overseas adds insult to cost
BART is buying a sleek new fleet of 775 cars - with the first 200 costing about $5.1 million apiece when all is said and done.
The sky-high price for what amounts to a 70-foot-long railway car is sending some folks into sticker shock - especially because the cars are coming from outside the country.
"Taxpayers from the San Francisco Bay Area are paying for these railcars, and they should be built in the Bay Area," said Scott Haggerty, an Alameda County supervisor and member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
The base price for each car is about $3.7 million - but that doesn't count the $850,000 apiece that BART will spend on a list of extras that includes sending inspectors to oversee the manufacturing and assembly of the cars. ..............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/29/BAVD1MVLMB.DTL
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San Francisco Chronicle: Building BART cars overseas adds insult to cost (Original Post)
marmar
Jan 2012
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XemaSab
(60,212 posts)1. What's the Nummi plant in Fremont
doing these days?
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)4. Making electric cars.
Tesla Motors bought it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Factory
Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)2. Absurd/ Just like the steel for the new bay bridge...
Came from China. Was cheaper. BUT, the money that the jobs would have produced would more than covered it.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)3. If they don't smell they're worth every penny.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)5. Maybe they're self-cleaning
like the toilets.