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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Subject: Re: Cost of public vs. private transportation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.080610.3478@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
- References: <1992Jul20.222201.27582@s1.gov> <21978@venera.isi.edu>,<1992Jul21.032157.1519@s1.gov>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:06:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.032157.1519@s1.gov>, lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- > True, BART is subsidized. It receives a 0.5 cent/$ sales tax
- >subsidy in the BART counties, which for me would run at a little less
- >than $1 a week.
-
- Now, multiply that $1/week by the number of people in those counties minus the
- number of people who ride BART, and add that to the cost of your ticket, and
- you'll have a better idea of how much your ticket really costs.
-
- > But what is the alternative to the LA subway?
- >
- > A new freeway?
-
- No. Convert the freeways to turnpikes. Make the tolls time-of-day dependent.
- Watch the businesses switch to staggered work schedules as their employees put
- pressure on them to do so. Watch the amount of car pooling increase. You
- might even see an increase in ridership for the RTD.
-
- > How much would that cost?
-
- It would actually be a revenue source.
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