Construction costs jumped 26 percent in past year with inflation and additional environmental regulations, officials say
Inflation, environmental concerns and spiraling costs have added $42.5 million to the expense of replacing an 80-year-old wooden railroad trestle crossing the Batiquitos Lagoon in Carlsbad. That brings the total cost to $165.6 million for the bridge, which will have two sets of tracks instead of the one on the existing span. The project is part of the San Diego Association of Government's efforts to double-track the entire 60-mile coastal rail corridor.
The new bridge also will be higher than the present one, to avoid sea-level rise, with less of a footprint in the water to impede tidal flows in the lagoon. Carlsbad City Councilmember Melanie Burkholder, also on the SANDAG board, opposed the increase. She said she'd rather see the money go elsewhere, perhaps to further a proposal to place the tracks in a trench below street level in downtown Carlsbad.
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