Lanes Not Trains
There is very little demand for transit or trains
The official data from the previous bridge project found that:
- Approximately 81,000 people make round trips across the river each day in cars.
- Approximately 150 people make round trips on bikes each day
- Approximately 30 people make round trips on foot each day
- Approximately 1650 people, per day make round trips on transit.
- Light rail IS NOT REQUIRED by any government agency.
- “High Capacity Transit” IS NOT REQUIRED.
Assuming that each double deck bridge costs $400, million:
- Car users cost $4938 each in construction cost
- Bikes + Pedestrians cost $1,111,111 each in construction cost
- Light rail riders cost $121,212 each construction cost
Trains bring crime
Light rail is dangerous -
Trains are expensive:
What light rail really looks like?
Vancouver voted down trains THREE TIMES: 1995, 2012 & 2013
Why is rail being proposed again -
- follow the money
- Rail Tranist, a Land Developer Scheme?
- The Transit-
Industrial Complex - Bribery
- who got rich last time?
Light Rail requires lies and deceptions to get support
- Light Rail DOES NOT reduce congestion
- Deceptions and lies found in the previous project
- C-
Tran’s contract with Trimet may be un- !enforcable - You can build your way out of congestion without transit
Transit Can’t Compete With Cars!
- Transit Can’t Reach Most Jobs in an hour commute!
- Why Americans Don’t Ride Transit
- Cars Beat Transit for Energy, CO2, Cost, Time & Convenience
MORE at No-
VIDEO: Transit expert’s evaluation of light rail (Tom Rubin was CFO of the Los Angeles transit system when they built their first light rail line which harmed transit in Los Angeles.)
VIDEO: Transit expert walks us through the political process of building light rail from inception to finish in this talk titled Stopping Rail
Crime on MAX Light Rail More