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. I had not seen this statistic publicized before. What an imbalance!
So that’s what all our gas taxes go toward.
Jealous is nothing but a typical knee jerk liberal bereft of ideas.
Hogan-Let’s combine private money and public services to build a highway to relieve massive gridlock
Jealous-I know, I know, how about light rail.
The Red Line he proposes was an absolute joke. It’s a 17 mile light rail through downtown Baltimore. Best estimates are 59,000 riders a day after 15 years of service.
When they were discussing it, I did a back of the napkin financial analysis. Costs were $2,000,000,000. That assume zero overruns, delays, graft etc. I don’t think that cost included operating labor. I assumed no overruns and no labor expenses simply because I didn’t have the data. I also assumed 59,000 riders a day from day one. Amortized over 25 years (The length of time light rail train cars can legally be kept in service) it worked out to something like $9 per rider per trip. There’s no way 59,000 people a day would pay that, so that means the state taxpayers would have to subsidize it by $6-7 per ride.