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From: dms@fluke.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Dade Co. Metrorail Opens - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 18:08:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 11 18:08:21 1984
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[hello]

>>	The Dade County ( Florida ) Metrorail system opened last week.
>>The following information was gleaned from an article entitled "$1 Billion
>>Rail System Opens in Dade County", from The New York Times, Sunday, May 27,
>>1984, page 22:
>>
>>	Dade County Metrorail System
>>	---- ------ --------- ------
>>
>>	cost:			$1,000,000,000 
>>	fare:			$1.00
>>	average ridership:	7,000 people/day
>>	times of operation:	6 a.m. - 7 p.m., Mon. - Fri.

Hmm... $1,000,000,000 divided by 7000 $/day divided by 5 days/week
divided by 52 weeks/year... assuming zero cost of maintainance and
operation, it ought to be paid off in only 550 years.  Are those numbers
wrong ( I hope ) or is this yet another example of the foolishness of
federal mass-transit subsidies?   Yes, yes, I know, they had to raise
the gas tax to fix up the roads.  Ha! 

Where's Jim Hill when we need him?

			David
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