Sanchez on OMB daylighting estimates showing lower costs

I mean, even if you were to multiply that by four, it would still be far less than the $3 billion in your testimony.

Is that correct?

Well, to answer that question, is that correct?

To get a full number, you would multiply by eight.

So, again, these are round numbers, but that's how you get there.

Are you aware that the previous administration's OMB estimates for Intro 1138, which called to daylight 1,000 intersections per year, included several large additional costs, including $8.7 million for

hardening barrier materials, $1.2 million for personnel services, including fringe to hire staff,

5.5 million for annual personnel services, 780,000 for drive rails, and 420,000 for signage, 63,000 in year one, and 126,000 in year two

for the purchasing of new vehicles and still only average close to just 17,000 per intersection.

So that is an average for one intersection.

It doesn't scale up equally.

And with every number, there's always outliers.

So to the point Deputy Commissioner Beaton was making, you can't just take one intersection and extrapolate it that way.

Linearly.

This is an OMB estimate for intro 1138.

Which is 1,000 intersections per year.

I think when you're picking a limited number of intersections, you can intentionally look for ones that are more straightforward and cost less.

When you're talking universally and doing it at every location in the city, you inherently have to do all the more complex ones.

And so as Igor said, it doesn't scale exactly the same way.

I mean, I think at the end of the day, we're eager to sit down and work through the details.

And if it's a matter of figuring out what's the most accurate cost, you know, we're happy to be a partner in that.