tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post5116924480683693592..comments2024-01-05T14:03:34.310-05:00Comments on CityKin: Sustainability and the StreetcarCityKinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068481950069401281noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post-11309656146447448462009-08-25T18:21:00.321-04:002009-08-25T18:21:00.321-04:00Fantastic information all around. Thanks for post...Fantastic information all around. Thanks for posting this, and thanks for the comment John. Both are very informative.Randy Simeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14272257274373604807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post-21445221515394783082009-08-25T08:53:36.974-04:002009-08-25T08:53:36.974-04:00Have you noticed how the anti-rail crowd always co...Have you noticed how the anti-rail crowd always conjure up some statistics "proving" that buses and cars are always more efficient than rail, or use less energy per passenger mile than rail, or some other dubious measure?<br /><br />The reason they can say that is simply because buses and cars make longer trips per passenger moved -- three to six times longer in this example.<br /><br />So imagine a car that travels to downtown from West Chester. It makes one start during the whole trip and travels 18 miles or so. It's a lot of nonstop miles, so the numbers look pretty good. Now consider light rail running on the same route. It stops probably twenty times to board and de-board passengers, perhaps four or five times in downtown alone. People are getting on an off the whole time, and the average trip is fairly short, five miles, say. So even though you're serving many more people on lots of different types of trips, when you divide the total costs by the miles compiled on all those short trips,the average cost per mile in terms of dollars or energy expended looks high. But if you had six buses or 250 cars emulating the work of the LRT, the sum of their costs would be much, much higher and both would be much less efficient than rail.John Schneiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17864316709800576965noreply@blogger.com