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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (452584)1/30/2009 7:00:04 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1575784
 
US transit ridership has been SOARING and hitting records. In 1999, ridership surged to a total of more than 9 billion trips, the highest peak in annual ridership since 1960.

1 - The study relies on old data. 1999 is now 10 years ago.

2 - Notice that even after the "soaring" of transit ridership, it was still below 1960, according to your own source.

In the last two years, transit has truly soared way beyond 1999 levels. At this point, we may have exceeded 1960 ridership levels. Four dollar gas made it very clear we need to have alternatives to cars if we want to survive as a nation.


Also your site assigns all the cost of the road, to the car, and none to the light rail which will also be using the same roads and signals, or will be using dedicated track which will increase the cost.

Why should the cost of an existing road be attributed to light rail? That's bull. Like I said before, what's great about light rail is that it usually takes advantage of existing right of ways.
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