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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Regarding those 1,100 jobs.....
A conservative (which I am far from being) would do the math and
misleadingly say that 1,111 jobs from a $1.5 billion project means each
job cost over a million dollars to create. This would be misleading
because it doesn't factor in the cost of the raw materials nor does it
consider the value of the finished project or product. Since Trimet,
however, is a transit agency, the real questions should be more about
the fact that these are largely temporary construction jobs as opposed
to permanent transit jobs. The one dimensional, one trick pony aspect of
more and more light rail sacrifices creativity and resources that could
better be used to build a robust transit agency. A modern total transit
system, conveniently serving all neighborhoods of the region, would
build ridership and revenues through frequent and reliable service.
Implementing bus rapid transit as well as electric trolley buses are
just a couple low cost (relative to rail) ways Trimet could go about
improving it's service and sustainability while creating good, permanent
transit jobs. The federal matching funds for doing this are there,
management needs only to go after them.
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1st Step : Acknowledgement.
"Hi, my name is Neil, I'm a light rail-aholic..."
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