“Actual ridership of light rails is consistently much lower than bureaucrats’ overly optimistic estimates. The Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) projected that the West Rail Line would carry 29,000 people each week in its first year of operation. Yet, the actual ridership was only about one third of that projection. Even this was only achieved by the RTD cutting off six bus lines so people were forced to take the light rail. After so many long term bus riders’ (many from low income families) complaints, RTD was forced to resume those bus lines. So nowadays, the West Rail Line runs pretty empty.”
Why, heck, I’ve seen 15 or 20 people at a time on one of these things as I DRIVE to my destination, which is almost always no where near a light rail station.
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I have to say that, when I want to go the Atlanta Airport I ride the Marta rail rather than drive through Atlanta or leave a car in an ATL parking lot. Likewise, if we can do it, we will take the rail to points inside Atlanta rather than drive. And it seems to get a lot of riders.