Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.13 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!friedman From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.railroad Subject: Re: Dade Co. Metrorail Opens - (nf) Message-ID: <20600009@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 12:13:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.20600009 Posted: Wed Jun 13 12:13:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 00:20:37 EDT References: <1474@inmet.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:inmet:-147400:uiucdcs:20600009:000:754 Nf-From: uiucdcs!friedman Jun 13 11:13:00 1984 #R:inmet:-147400:uiucdcs:20600009:000:754 uiucdcs!friedman Jun 13 11:13:00 1984 > 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! That figure of 7000 riders per day must be merely a startup figure. It works out to less than 2,000,000 riders per year, which is less than the bus system here in little 'ol Champaign-Urbana, Illinois (a community of about 100,000 people). After a steady state is reached, this figure has to be grossly too low for a metropolitan area as large as Dade.