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To: tejek who wrote (452648)	1/30/2009 6:53:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575984

With light rail, capacity can be increased significantly by simply adding more cars. If your using far fewer cars than the capacity of the line, than your passenger levels per area used isn't high. If you've nearly maxed out the lines capacity than you can't increase passenger levels significantly by simply adding more cars. "Heavy" rail can carry much higher levels of passengers per area used than highways. Light rail often does not. And of course if they have Priuses (or you can give them cheaper cars and use the difference to add to the road network), they have the flexibility to drive anywhere, not just where the light rail line goes. To the extent that you really do need more roads you can take the capital cost of the rail system and use it to build more roads or more lanes. The "buy a Prius for the poor/carless users of the system" plan relied just on the annual subsidy to the light rail system, not on its capital expenses.