Chief
04-28-2008, 10:47 AM
** Negligible impact on traffic congestion
** Slower than the auto.
** No advantages over express buses.
** Will not improve commuter travel
times, energy conservation and safety.
** Virtually none of the pollution improvement
is attributable to transit
** Expensive relative to other transit
modes
** The average auto work trip is about 19 minutes while the average transit
work trip is 50 minutes.
** Express buses . . . about 60 % faster than light rail's 16.2 miles per
hour.
** Public transit is less fuel-efficient than the auto.
** Transit's share of land travel in the U.S. has dropped from approximately 6% to less than 1 % since 1950.
** Light rail is inflexible
** Development along light rail corridors is spurred by tax subsidies, not light rail.
Grand Jury Report on Light Rail (http://www.clarkblog.org/docs/NEWCRC/GRANDJURY.pdf?s=&showtopic=4351&view=findpost&p=28980)
** Slower than the auto.
** No advantages over express buses.
** Will not improve commuter travel
times, energy conservation and safety.
** Virtually none of the pollution improvement
is attributable to transit
** Expensive relative to other transit
modes
** The average auto work trip is about 19 minutes while the average transit
work trip is 50 minutes.
** Express buses . . . about 60 % faster than light rail's 16.2 miles per
hour.
** Public transit is less fuel-efficient than the auto.
** Transit's share of land travel in the U.S. has dropped from approximately 6% to less than 1 % since 1950.
** Light rail is inflexible
** Development along light rail corridors is spurred by tax subsidies, not light rail.
Grand Jury Report on Light Rail (http://www.clarkblog.org/docs/NEWCRC/GRANDJURY.pdf?s=&showtopic=4351&view=findpost&p=28980)