How much did Salt Lake City - Weber Co. Commuter Rail cost to build?
FrontRunner North is the 44-mile Utah Transit Authority commuter rail line between Salt Lake City and Pleasant View near Ogden with eight stations, built beside the Union Pacific main line from August 2005 and opened on 26 April 2008. UtahRails, quoting Railway Age of 25 April 2008, and a 2008 Metro Jacksonville article give a cost of USD 611 million, or USD 13.9 million per mile, with USD 489 million from a federal full funding grant agreement, whereas the earlier snapshot used USD 541.8 million from the FTA Capital Cost Database.
Reported project cost
$611 million
Cost basis: 2008
Joe Tordiff from one mile east o, the great salt lakeCC BY-SA 2.0
Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Reported project cost2008
Project metrics
Key dimensions
- Total lengthMetro Jacksonville
- 70.811 km
Project record