Jason, Your basic premise is correct. The Skyweb system proposed by the Taxi2000 people is less expensive to build. However it would not, as you stated, be possible to cover the whole of Minneapolis for the capital investment that went into the LRT. If you go to the Taxi2000 website www.skywebexpress.com and go to the section labeled "the system" and look under comparisons, you can look at projections for operating and capital costs as well as comparisons for energy needs.
But to your point about the costs of the Hiawatha PRT line. I believe the total capital costs for the line were about $700 or $800 million to build. Then as I understand it there will be an annual operating cost from the tax payers of $8 or $10million. If someone has the exact figures, please correct me. Now, the 68 Station Skyweb Plan for Minneapolis should cost between $400million and $600million to build. All of the Operating expenses will be more than covered by the fare box. The capital costs will probably be covered fare box, but until we do an actual study, I am not prepared to state that conclusively. Also, this 68 Station Plan only covers and area from Uptown to the U of M and from the Hiawatha Mall to the Main downtown post office-- that is not quite all of Minneapolis. Dean Zimmermann Minneapolis City Council Member/Ward 6 612-673-2206, Office 612-724-3888, Home [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace/Shalom/Salaam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason C Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:56 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] Re:Destroying neighborhoods for the freeway is STUPID/forget Alina > > Recently in Orlando, I came back to the city wondering to myself why we wouldn't build a monorail > type system instead of ground-based LRT. Monorail was unbelievably quiet and saved space through > elevation. > > At the sustainability conference at Augsburg on Saturday, I had a chance to speak with a Skyweb > Express (http://www.skywebexpress.com/) rep. I asked him the question about elevation and he > responded 'don't get me started'. > > I've also read and heard that the costs are significantly lower, for example: > http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=communique&newsid=4147 . The Skyweb rep stated that the > city could be covered in a web of Skyweb for less than the cost of the Hiwawatha Line alone. > > Regards, > Jason Stone > Nokomis > > --- Ray of Minneapolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I swear, the trolly systems we had back in the day > > were way better then Lightrail will ever be. Thats > > another thing. For all the money they spent on > > getting-stuck-in-the-ice-LRT, we could have had some > > kinda hydrogen/electric monorail. > > What ever code book the regional planners are using > > lacks vision and intellegent innovation. Well, to be > > continued as allways.... > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes > http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus > REMINDERS: > 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
