Friday, July 15, 2011
Meanwhile - in Oregon - "Study Finds Light Rail System Rarely Used"
Here, the citizens did the study that elected officials SHOULD have done and NEVER did.
The results seem to show that this was a very expensive waste of taxpayers funds, AND the beat goes on.
Governments continue to push and fund grandiose projects that the public is unlikely to use...
The results seem to show that this was a very expensive waste of taxpayers funds, AND the beat goes on.
Governments continue to push and fund grandiose projects that the public is unlikely to use...
the Newspaper at TheTruthAboutCars.com recently posted this:
"The Cascade Policy Institute wanted to verify the claim that the TriMet transit system was able to move more passengers than a standard bus line. The researchers did so by attending five special events where use of mass transit would make the most sense, including the final playoff game for the Portland Trail Blazers. The events were spread throughout the year to examine the effects of different weather conditions on transit use. City officials have never made a study of this sort.
'This is important because transportation planners at Metro, TriMet, ODOT and other agencies routinely make multi-billion-dollar decisions based on travel surveys, computer models or simply their own personal beliefs about how people should travel,' Cascade President John A. Charles, Jr wrote in his report. 'They rarely have any direct knowledge of how people actually travel under specific conditions of time, mode availability, parking pricing and geographic constraints'
The Cascade team counted a total of 47,666 individual attendees, noting how many headed toward the venue from a light rail station and how many arrived by automobile, bicycle or foot. At best, 21 percent arrived by rail to see the Trail Blazers. At worst, the opening of the Gresham Civic Station saw just 2 percent arrive by rail. On average, rail accounted for just 11 percent of the trips recorded."
