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Originally Posted by SoCalKid
Oh noooooo that sucks. Thanks for the info. Is there any world where they select Alternative 6 then invite private sector companies to do a joint venture on that alternative?
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It's always possible, but it will always be more costly and more time-consuming than the other alternatives. For Alternative 6, after this firm is done, if they want to proceed with it, they would need to bid it out for a contractor to do preliminary engineering, that maybe takes a year or so (just the time to advertise the bid opportunity, discussion with interested bidders, evaluating bidders). They will also need to bid it out for a contractor to build it (or build and operate it as a P3), which is usually a 1.5-2 year process (just the time to advertise the bid opportunity, discussion with interested bidders, evaluating bidders). Finally, they have a baseline design that probably is more expensive since the assumption was driver-operated trains, 450-foot station platforms and presumably dual-bore tunnels.
Alternatives 1-5 already have the preliminary engineering, construction and operation teams ready, because they won the 2-year PDB bid years ago.