More CRC/Loot Rail idiocy: Loot rail would DOUBLE transit travel times between Portland and Vantucky.

So, we're gonna spend $10 billion for THIS?

Good.

God.

Light rail across the Columbia River would double transit travel times between Portland and Vancouver

October 19, 2011 by Michael Ennis

In a new research study, Tom Rubin compares the current transit travel times across the Columbia River Crossing (CRC) in Vancouver with the travel times of a proposed light rail system.

Our own research has shown that the current transit system adequately serves passenger demand across the CRC. Replacing it with light rail across a new bridge would be redundant at best, and wasteful.

Rubin’s research sharpens this point further.

Travel time between Downtown Vancouver and Downtown Portland, as follows:

Existing C-Tran Route 105 (scheduled):                  16 minutes

Locally Preferred Option (light rail, projected):         36 minutes

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) (projected):                      14 minutes

The Locally Preferred Alternative, of course, was light rail, at a cost shown as $865 million (this is the lowest out of a number of different methods of calculation and may be significantly understated).

Of course, one might ask, why would someone in Vancouver going to Portland take light rail, if it takes 20 minutes longer – wouldn't they just take the existing bus service?

Well, no problem, they have solved that – the existing bus line will no longer be operated after light rail begins service.

So CRC officials want to spend $1 billion on a light rail system that would double current transit travel times between Vancouver and Portland.

Read Rubin’s full report here.

Just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside to know how very badly these slimeballs want to screw us.