[rellimpank]

--for the public transit fans out there--

[Gamecock]

I live in Germany and am a big public tranist fan, for Europe. For back home? I have a bunch of misgivings. On a slightly different topic, I watched a show on the local rail in Mumbai two nights ago. Many of you have seen the pictures of people clinging to the roof and sides of these trains, crossing in front of trains.

Anyway, they said 3,500 people are killed a year doing one of the above.

[csvset]

Where’s Willie Green when you need him?

[neb52]

Trains are great if the city can be built around them, but otherwise its a money drain. The DART system here in Dallas has good ridership and gets 22c revenue for every $1 spent. Even if the ridership raises to fuller capacity they may get revenue of 40-50c to every $1 spent.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

I like the Las Vegas monorail. It’s a great way to relax and enjoy unexcelled views of the Strip both day and night. The staff are great too.

[Yo-Yo]

"Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, Bona fide, Electrified, Six-car Monorail!"

Perhaps if the good people of Las Vegas built the Monorail so that it went through the lobbies of the larger hotels on the strip (ala Disney World's Contemporary Hotel,) it would get more ridership.

[posterchild]

It misses out on most of it’s potential utility by not running to the airport.

[KarlInOhio]

When nationally known bond experts downgraded the monorail's state-backed bonds into junk status, and then into junky-junk status, and now into bottom-of-the-junk-drawer status, local officials OK'd a plan to expand the train to the airport.

Well that about the smartest thing they've done. I never understood why they seemed to purposely avoid the most important stop they could have put on the route.

[SlowBoat407]

[hinckley buzzard]

local officials OK'd a plan to expand the train to the airport.

The fact that the train didn't begin at the airport, is proof positive that it has been a scam from the word go. Intrinsic corruption disqualifies it from being a fair test of point-to-point mass transit.