BIKE: Re: News items on Austin rail transit plan

[Jay Paulson]

> Capital Metro projects that initial ridership on the line (tentatively
targeted
> for opening in 2007) would be about 1,700 boardings per weekday. The
> longer-range forecast predicts about 16,700 weekday boardings in 2025.
> [Austin American-Statesman, 17 October 2004]

I heard this before.  How is transporting only 1,700 boardings per weekday
really going to effect Austin's traffic?  How many cars are on the road?
Hundreds of thousands.  They expect for Central Texas to double in size by
2025 that means lots more cars on the road and they only expect 16,700 per
weekday.  I just don't see how this is solving our transportation needs.  In
my opinion to make any difference Cap Metro would need to have way more
boardings per weekday than this to really affect the amount of traffic on
our roadways and soon to be toll ways.

Just my .02

Jay