Posted Feb 7, 2013, 4:39 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 18,385
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Mother of god, 100,000 riders on a bus line? We have nothing that's even in the same universe (of course we have higher rail ridership). That's insane. There's no way that's cost efficient. With operating savings it would take about 10 minutes to recoup the cost of streetcar upgrade on a line like that.
The other ~50,000 bus route I'm aware of is the 16th Street Shuttle in Denver, but it's a different animal. Only 1 mile long and free all the time. Minneapolis' Nicollet Street Shuttle is probably similar.
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