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Originally Posted by nixcity
What percentage of the 2000 LR proposal's projected ridership would have been from Leander stop to Crestview?
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It's not realistic to divide it like that - some prospective 2000 riders from far up north would have wanted to get off at UT, and don't take the Red Line because of the shuttle. Likewise, some prospective 2000 riders would have embarked downtown to go to UT or vice-versa. A few brave souls might even have gone from UT to IBM (college co-ops, let's say). Quite a few UT people riding the Pickle shuttle would likely have been made to switch to LRT + local shuttle up there, too.
You can make some educated guesses, though; the projected ridership for the 2000 light rail plan, which served the current Red Line passengers as well or better, was 30-40,000 boardings/day, depending on where the first segment would have started (some had it in Leander, others at Howard Lane). Now that the Red Line is operating essentially all the time, it's carrying 2000-2500 boardings/day.
By the way, in 1997ish, Capital Metro actually tried to propose true light rail on the Red Line path (never going down Guadalupe and Lamar, but building full electrified double-track and running at LRT frequency), and the Feds laughed them out of the building. That tells you the Red Line will never grow into a light-rail-like facility. Never ever ever.