How expensive is light rail to build per mile?

Question

Have a stretch of flat land about 10 miles long...would like to find out how much it would cost to connect our community to another rail line 10 miles away.

Answer 1

about 1.5 million a mile...

Answer 2

Light rail is a buzzword that municipal planners love to throw out to sound as if they know what they are talking about.

Light rail is simply a passenger transportaiton system that does not connect to the national rail system so falls under a different set of guidelines.

the equipment costs more or less the same as other systems, roughtl 1.25 to 1.5 million per mile.