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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
An entertaining diatribe that's completely wrong:
1) It costs more to transport someone from Vienna to Metro Center than from Dupont Circle to Metro Center. THis is true both with respect to marginal costs (fuel/energy to move your flabby suburban ass many more miles) and fixed costs (Metro had to build a lot more miles of rail to reach your flabby suburban ass). Given these costs, there is no reason not to charge more for longer distances travelled.
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Actually, the opposite is true. The cost of laying down track on open ground - or on elevated bridgeworks - is minimal in comparison to the cost of laying track in underground tunnels. The L.A. subway cost, I believe, a million dollars for every few yards of tunnel. The same cannot be said of surface rail.
