Commuter Rail
Two special guests today...
Randal O'Toole, senior economist, at the Thoreau Institute
also
Ron Utt from The Heritage Foundation
FYI
Commuter rail was part of the Crotty Mobility 2020 plan and it lost big at polls.
1) A worldwide study showed that the average cost of rail construction exceeds projections by over 40 percent.
2) Usage is always far less than expected, and is mainly confined to 4 hours per day, 5 days per week.
3) Light rail is by far the most expensive method per passenger mile of moving people; nothing else even comes close.
4) Commuter rail uses more energy per passenger than a bus, or even an efficient car.
posted by Pat Campbell @ 9:09 AM
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Hey Pat, Ken from Erie here,
I just got this off of the PHX news website. It offers insight I hadn't been made aware of before about crime following light rail.
"...After citing the poor performance of light rail transit, Fernandez let the Council know that, according to the National Transit Database of the Federal Transit Administration, light rail has the highest rate of murder, rape, robbery, assault, larceny, theft, burglary and arson.
No wonder he calls light rail transit the “Pipeline for Crime.” Then he told the Council that light rail has a higher fatality rate than any other form of transit. That’s a “Train of Death!”..."
Full article here;
http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=39998
www.iwrote1.blogspot.com
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