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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Crystalite

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2. This is pretty shitty. I'm seeing similar resistance to a sales tax hike.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 07:09 PM

Nov 2015

There are local groups who want all of a 1/2¢ sales tax for transportation measure to go to highway widening while others among us want to bring passenger rail to the county.

I'm looking for best case scenarios to cite, projects that came in at budget and exceeded ridership projections, and that have high farebox recovery ratios. Amtrak and BART are pretty high but some examples in smaller communities would be terrific to have.

People hate rail, I guess they see it as "socialization", but very few realize how heavily subsidized roads and highways are.

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