Originally Posted By: Hankster
$200M+ per mile for a light rail line is fine with you, so go for it. There's plenty of money layin' around and folks are dyin' to spend it. Now all you have to do is convince the 84% of the people who drive to get out of their cars and climb aboard. The increase of 3.6% of transit riders over the past 20 years doesn't convince me that can be done. Maybe they can get a law passed up there that makes it illegal to drive to work. How 'bout you, Salmo? Do you take public transportation? If not, why not? Inconvenient? Takes too long? Maybe you'd rather be spending that time in other places?

Illahee, I don't know how you got the idea a survey done for The Oregonian was a biased anti mass transit website, but you did.



Look Hank compared to SF Bay area, Trimet light rail is heavily used.
SF area has a population of just over 7.46 million people Muni Metro has a daily ridership of 173,500 passengers, where Portland Metro area has 2.2 million people and 141,000 of them ride the train every day.
SF has 46.6 miles of track where Portland has over 59 miles.
So why doesn't SF have more mass transit projects?