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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by rrandb [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by EUCLID TRAVIS [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by n012944 [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by EUCLID TRAVIS Well they just completed the Hiawatha LRT here in Minneapolis. I think it is about 12 miles long and cost almost $1 billion. It will cost $25-30 million per year just to run it. The riders swear by it, but of course, with 12 miles of route, the users are a select group. We are told that it may not make economic sense right now, but once we build a whole network of rail lines, and rebuild the city around them, it will all make sense. [/quote] You have to start somewhere Bert [/quote] Yes, but you should start something that is not absurd. For the money, it would be far more efficient to improve the roads and bus transit. If the objective is to clean up the air, why not get the job done sooner rather than later? [/quote] Thats the point of light rail and commuter initiatives. They want to start now instead of later. While the initial expenses are high they only get higher the longer you wait. There is virtually no room to widen existing hyways in many metropolitan areas. The expense of elevating hyways makes steel rails look attractive since they are a more efficent and effective way to move people. Both enviromentally and the effect on the landscape. [/quote] I don’t know when it became written in stone that we don’t have any room to expand the freeways. We have gobs of room around Minneapolis and Saint Paul. I have heard that for the billion dollars that we spent on our 12-mile light rail hobby, we could have added another lane to the entire ring freeway, bridges and all. And a lack of room certainly did not stop the light rail project. We rearranged half of downtown to shoehorn that in.
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