The cost of this whole gorram thing is ginormous. We're ten years over schedule and 50 million over budget. Let's not pretend that this makes fiscal sense.
Ballard alone would add 60,000 daily riders. It has more rider potential than the rest of the spine that was approved, and all of Ballard overwhelming voted for and paid into the system that is refusing to serve them.
What ballard and the whole line needs is a shift in process and methodology:
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False@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 81d
Weird, it's like the more places it goes the more useful it is
Tujio@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 81d
Go to Ballard, you cowards!
kalkulat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 80d
Divide the # of people in Ballard by the current projected cost ... the per-person cost (if -everybody- rode it) is ginormous.
Tujio@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 80d
The cost of this whole gorram thing is ginormous. We're ten years over schedule and 50 million over budget. Let's not pretend that this makes fiscal sense.
rainwall@piefed.social · 1 pts · 79d
Ballard alone would add 60,000 daily riders. It has more rider potential than the rest of the spine that was approved, and all of Ballard overwhelming voted for and paid into the system that is refusing to serve them.
What ballard and the whole line needs is a shift in process and methodology:
https://www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-reconnect-and-automate-ballard-to-west-seattle-rail-to-save-st3/