text: The $8.2 billion estimated cost of rail that the city is trying to find money to fund actually is only a mirage.
  Yes.
  A Mirage.
  Everyone sees the $8.2 billion.  But that $8.2 billion does not exist.
  The $8.2 billion rail cost estimate does not exist simply because from 2018 to 2027 one can guarantee that rail cost estimate would escalate far far beyond the mirage of $8.2billion