Funny that Trimet is losing riders while the rest of the countries transit systems are gaining riders.
Something is wrong with that picture huh?
Accessibility is also one of TriMet’s strong suits with 90% of those rush-hour commuters living within half a mile of the service. It’s no wonder then that 84% of TriMet’s customers use the service as a preferred alternative to driving, or sometimes even owning, a car. - See more at:
Very odd that THIS list puts Trimet ridership at 12% and Trimet barely qualifies as average on THIS list. Ridership continues to fall month after month after month, Something doesn't add up, somebody isn't being honest
For more than 40 years, TriMet has demonstrated the benefits of public transit to residents of greater Portland. They’ve shown that providing reliable, accessible, and affordable public transportation improves neighborhoods’ livability and diminishes the impact on the environment. Talk about a win-win for the people of Portland. - (wow is this not the best propaganda ever? Who comes up with this nonsense anyway)
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more bus less rail!!! you could run a line 33 from downtown every 3min 24 hrs a day for 50 years and that would not equal the $1.5 billon bull shit PMLR
Another example of a lie: JFK said that quote.
The source behind the quote has never been found. The first person it was attributed to was Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda secretary.
to run a bus every 3 min would require at least 25 drivers min and cost about lets say $100 for fuel tires maint wages etc.$25x$100=$2500 now let's take thers 8760 hrs in a year so 8760x$2500= $21,000,000 so divide $1,500,000,000/ $21,000,000 = 71 years
I thought that quote looked familiar:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
The_Craven
Joseph Goebbels quotes
That's an interesting calculation. Let's see, here's roughly what I think it would be:
- 2 hours round trip between Oregon City & downtown
- at 3 min service, that's 40 busses
- 40 busses * 24 hours * 7 days = 6,720 operating hours/week
- Each operator works 40 hours per week.
- 6,720 / 40 = 168 operators
- 1 operator = ~$120K salary, benefits
- $120K * 168 operators = $20.2M/year
- $20.2M * 50 years = $1B labor cost
So right now we're at $1B, but we haven't considered:
- equipment cost (45? busses * 4 replacements * $500K = $90M)
- COLA / other rising operator costs
- maintenance costs
- fuel
- traffic
- operators taking vacation, sick days, etc.
- administration costs (dispatchers, supervisors, etc)
My guess is that the bus cost is probably higher than $1.5B, but still in the same general magnitude (i.e. not 10x more or 1/10th less).
Of course we're really comparing apples and oranges here -- but still an interesting idea.
If this was really about transit the bus idea wins hands down. But enlightened people know this light rail shit has virtually nothing to do with transit.
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