Scott, Good article from the Federal Reserve of St.Louis. I especially like the part that says, "Based solely on dollar costs, the annual light- rail subsidies could instead be used to buy an environmentally friendly hybrid Toyota Prius every five years for each poor rider and even to pay annual maintenance costs of $6,000. Increases in polution would be minimal with the hybrid vehicle, and 7,700 new vehicles on the roadway would result in only 0.5 percent increase in traffic congestion. And there would still be funds left over - about $49 million per year. These funds could be given to all other MetroLink riders (amounting to roughly $1,045 per person per year) and be used for cab fare, bus fare, etc."
PJ, it's the public's choice NOT to support mass transit. Always has been. Taxes never killed it, cars and suburbia did. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/4/08, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Oh well, I guess a couple of A's and a B+ ourtank my Masters Thesis in >> urban transportation planning, and work experience in Cost and >> Economic Analysis for the railroad plus 24 years at Mickey D's doing >> Real Estate Market planning. Oh well... Regards, Bob S. > > This is an interesting read. > <http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional/04/07/light_rail.pdf> > > -- > Scott Loveless > New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA > http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
