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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by saycheese on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:14PM (#13941757)
Possible my numbers are wrong, but based on the "1% of the project cost" appears this will cost 3.5 billion dollars in total; $305 billion total cost [1] * 1% of total = three billion fifty million for "dig once"

[1] "Congress passed the five-year, $305 billion “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act” on Dec. 3, 2015, and President Obama signed the bill the next day."

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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by wongarsu on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:26PM (#13945287)
Your math checks out. Seems like a fairly cheap measure.
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