From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 19:13:07 MST
--- Damien Broderick <thespike@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> >I found that the cost per new rider for the
> > system expansion came to over $25,000 per year for the 40 year life
> of
> > the project. Projected increased ridership was 34,000, adjusted to
> > 17,000, while project cost was originally around $7 billion,
> adjusted
> > up to over $13 billion.
>
> By the way, has anything like this cost blowout ever been known to
> happen to
> those immense freeway projects that cover the USA (mostly at tax
> payers' expense, I understand)? No, surely not.
Highways in the US are paid for entirely by gasoline taxes and road
tolls, i.e. by those people that use them. Even the huge and costly
"Big Dig" (that portion which is highway) in Boston is entirely paid
for by gas tax revinues, as is the I-90 as it passes thru Mercer Island
and over the southern Floating Bridge in Seattle, which can fight with
each other for title of most costly few miles of highway in the
country.
Mass transit users, on the other hand, typically pay only a miniscule
fraction of the cost of their use.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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