From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Stephen Sprunk  wrote:   
   >On 11-Apr-15 12:56, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>Stephen Sprunk  wrote:   
   >>>On 11-Apr-15 11:08, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
      
   >>>>I'm trying to reduce station construction costs on your   
   >>>>railroad.   
      
   >>>Platform height/length has a negligible impact on cost, compared to   
   >>>all the other (much larger) station expenses that aren't affected   
   >>>at all.   
      
   >>Platforms are hideously expensive. Metra has had standard-height   
   >>platform replacement projects over the last several years, and they   
   >>take an amazing 13 weeks under traffic.   
      
   >Then someone needs to get fired.  DART replaced _dozens_ of platforms   
   >while they were in service, closing them just two weekends each plus   
   >working nights when there were no trains.  Start to finish for each   
   >station was under a month.   
      
   >Then again, you're saddled with unions, so taking three-plus times as   
   >long (and probably ten-plus times as much money) is to be expected.   
   >That's the price you pay for living in the Rust Belt.   
      
   We don't close freight railroads for weekends.   
      
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