How Much Did This Thing Cost?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Port Authority's current management inherited the West Busway project and
> fortuitously scaled it back.  It has been open about 6 weeks now and is
> carrying 5400 weekday riders, 2200 on weekends.  Wasn't it built at near-LRT
> prices?  Shouldn't you be getting 30,000 or more weekday passengers if you
> pay that much?

For whatever number I saw I really figured there should have been wires
and rails; And I still like the duobus idea (run diesel/trolleybus
vehicles on the busways, drop the poles when you hit the streets at either
end, or maybe even string the wires downtown; makes the Edgewood whiners
happy: no noise, no pollution)

-D