SOME INTRESTING FACTS
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It cost NASA $2.5 billion to fly 250 million miles, which is $10 per mile.
It cost TriMet $1.49 billion to build 7.3 miles of light rail from Portland to Milwaukie, which is $204,110,099 per mile.
TriMet's stupidity... PRICELESS!
9 comments:
Nice, but the distance to the moon is 250,000 miles, not 250,000,000 miles. And the cost of the Apollo program was $20B in 1970 dollars, $100B in 2011 dollars.
And you forgot to divide by the number of passengers--which, in the case of the Apollo program, was zero. (All on board were crew, after all).
But cute nonetheless.... :)
He was referring to MARS Scott-not the moon
Ah. NASA's sent plenty of things into space that have gone further than Mars.
OTOH, if you wanna compare mileage, TriMet's puts about 25 million miles on the busses, and who knows how many million miles on its trains, each year.
And Curiousity is unlikely to encounter any drunken passengers on its journey, or be told it has to finish its run before it gets to go pee. :P
Of course, astronauts are given catheters for THAT problem.
Calculate it based on pounds of payload, number of reuses of the finished vehicle, or passenger-miles, and TriMet comes out looking better than NASA. ;-)
Yeah, compared to NASA even WES is cost-effective. :P
Barely. :P
But what's cool is how cost effective a natural gas powered bus fleet would be; because a Nat Gas refueling station is only about a million dollars times three garages, times the cost of a go any where Westport powered bus.
heads up, the paved infrastructure is already in place.
Hahaha....well its still a fun post!
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