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Monday, August 05, 2002

Transportation and Transit. There Are No Simple Solutions To State's Transportation Problems.
So goes the title of Steve Dornfeld's opinion piece on transportation funding options
in Minnesota published in the August 5, 2002 issue of the Pioneer Press.
 
Focusing just on the light rail equation, the Hiawatha LRT line by 2020 will net about 6,200 new transit riders and the proposed University Avenue corridor would net 3,800 riders. In all, 10,000 net new transit riders per day would be added for 1.5 billion dollars in transit capital expenditure.
 
Doing the math, that is 150,000 dollars in capital costs per net new transit rider on the two corridors. Even that does not include the cost of annual operations. Contrast this math with an earlier Pulse note on how we cannot really afford to get aggressive on carpools in the metropolitan region since "the money would have to come from somewhere else".
 
Steve Dornfeld's opinion piece is at: http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/opinion/3788668.htm. (97)
posted by Lyle Wray at 11:04 AM

 

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