PJ, If by "the conclusion I come to is that people will support mass transit, if someone else pays for it" you mean a group of you and your friends will nod knowingly and say "Yes, we should have more public transit...Why I remember when..." The experience of most public transit systems is even if you made it free, most people would not use it. 1) It doesn't go where I want. 2) It doesn't go when I want. & 3) I'd have to ride with some undesirable people. Public demand/acceptance of transit is the problem. No demand, no riders! Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You see that's where you're off a bit, the conclusion I come to is that > people will support mass transit, if someone else pays for it, the cost of > the alternatives is made artificially high. That was the whole point of the > article. > Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> 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 >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> 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 >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > > -- > You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. > --Al Capone. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
