Answering Mr. Tennyson

Mr. Tennyson, wrote on my blog (www.andyhaydon.com) and he identified the problem of surface transportation. This is why a tunnel is proposed and supported by most taxpayers.

He took selective data from various specific transit systems to make his argument.  This skews the facts.

Ottawa’s existing Bus Rapid Transit is the best in North America as measured by the American Public Transit Association in rides per capita, 40% better than the next best, Calgary with an LRT system

According to the United States General Accounting Office, the United States Dept. of Transportation, The U.S. Transportation Research Board, The U.S. National Transit Database, The Canadian Fact Book, McCormick Rankin, and Toronto Transit System,

LRT operating costs per vehicle revenue mile vary from 2.19 to 2.96 times more expensive than Bus Rapid Transit

By the way BRT is faster.

LRT with transfers will result in rider ship loss and slower speeds.

The real LRT story:

Denver has an additional 0.8 sales tax to pay for their scaled back LRT system.

Portland’s revenue from fare box is 15% - the taxpayers pay the rest.

Welcome to LRT and Poverty

Andy