Does anyone know if there is support from Greater MN legislators on transit that would not seem to help their constituents. That seems to me to have been a problem in the past.
Josh Kroll Minneapolis
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Does LRT impact other transit funding? It depends on the twist that one wants to put on it. Afterall, state and local governemnts just spent how much to build LRT? $325 million? Seems like that's a for years of $60m shortfalls and then some. That aside, I suspect both Strom and Lamb are playing with numbers for their own advantage. Off the top of my head, I thought I saw figures that it would cost something like $11m a year to operate LRT. However, that was pure operating costs with estimates that ridership revenues would cover $7m-$8m of that. But that's just off the top of my head.
Allen Graetz MPLStown
Scott Dier wrote:
The Metropolitan Council, controlled by Pawlenty appointees, is proposing and anticipating YET ANOTHER cut to transit funding in the Twin Cities metro area. I believe this would be the fourth cut in five years.
The worst part is when we've got anti-tax groups arguing with met council saying that light rail is taking all the bus funds -- met council themselves have said that its simply not the case.
--- "It is so remarkably expensive that they wind up cannibalizing the rest of the system, so even if light-rail ridership is up, you have a net decline,'' Strom said, adding that subtracting the $11 million going to light rail would make a substantial impact on the $60 million deficit.
Lamb said light rail receives its funding from the general fund and is responsible for less than $1 million of the shortfall. ---
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