tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post4924205439290998664..comments2024-02-01T04:37:41.878-05:00Comments on Cap'n Transit Rides Again: Let's subsidize bad choices - and then tax them!Cap'n Transithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17057887736728828646noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-77910475103885475402010-03-11T01:25:25.420-05:002010-03-11T01:25:25.420-05:00The Legacy Highway has had a very similar effect o...The Legacy Highway has had a very similar effect on Utah's brand new commuter rail system. The rail opened first, but ridership is down by about half since the new highway opened. (The two corridors directly parallel one another.)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18358190327140489490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-67904242236219923822010-03-01T00:44:38.544-05:002010-03-01T00:44:38.544-05:00Thanks, Alon! Very helpful. It would certainly b...Thanks, Alon! Very helpful. It would certainly be nice if the MTA (or, say, a local 501(c)3 nonprofit) did studies like this.Cap'n Transithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17057887736728828646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-90594070812767769692010-03-01T00:00:28.556-05:002010-03-01T00:00:28.556-05:00I don't know how highway subsidies affect tran...I don't know how highway subsidies affect transit ridership exactly in New York, but in Chicago they have a clear but not huge negative effect. Metra's magazine <a href="http://metrarail.com/content/dam/metra/documents/Bi_Level/OTBLApril09.pdf" rel="nofollow">documents</a> how following the reconstruction of the Dan Ryan Expressway in 2007, the two Metra lines serving the same direction had ridership declines in 2008, while all other lines saw ridership increases.Alon Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12195377309045184452noreply@blogger.com