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The section of the Hadrian’s Cycleway connects Workington and Whitehaven.
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Funnily enough they never put the cost in the headline, when they report on car infrastructure being built.
So true!
Also, I was quite surprised it’s 280km. Pretty impressive
Yeah, I am reading a book called Bikenomics and they quote studies that say the least we pay per mile of road in the US is $6 million. It’s usually much higher.
I knew this was going to happen.
Thats not a lot money for any piece of transport infrastructure.
Yeah. I’d say on average, we would maybe be able to construct a single new kilometer of cyclepath for that amount of money, not even including all those public administration man hours for several years before the construction crews do the actual digging and paving. It can cost significantly less if the terrain is flat and it’s out in the open, but often enough more. For instance, when you need to purchase the land from someone, when you’re crossing a river or a road, or when drainage is difficult to build.
I wonder how long that stretch is that cost 600k GBP.
Edit: 13 km (or 8 miles)? A lot of that cycleway must have existed already.
