[PRCo] Re: Is there really a good Transit System?

[John Swindler]

What about ridership??

Isn't it around 250,000 per day on Red, Green and Blue lines in LA??

If so, that would mean that LA's electric rail transit lines attract about 
ten times the number of people that use rail transit in Pittsburgh.

John



>From: ROGERTROLLY at webtv.net (ROGER Jenkins)
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Is there really a good Transit System?
>Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:42:09 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>Mr.PROCHEK : That is absolutly true about the LA system as it was way
>over budget [federal ] due to sloppy construction and numerous mistakes
>by the Contractors , mostly Taliba-Saluda [sic]  and poor engineering .
>The Red Line subway system was completly underground and dug by boring
>machines that went thru water mains and flooded the entire subway [poor
>engineering] aand got stuck due to a land shift under Universal Sudios !
>There were portions that were done by cut and cover method. In Hollywood
>along the boulevard , poor engineering allowed the buildings along an
>entire section to sink 2 or 3 feet !!  NOT ENOUGH SUPPORT BUILT IN .
>
>    On the other hand the Metro Blue line THE FIRST line put in  that
>followed the old Pacific Electric r-o-w most of the way using a subway
>at the downtown end of it ,came in mostly on budget projections . The
>only part that gave the project a problem and was overbudget was the
>cities along the way thru Compton and further north of that was the
>desire to level the track crossings from the original 2 0r more feet
>above the street surface. This caused the contractor to dig down at
>every crossing and sink all the utilities further down to clear the
>lowered track base, This alone raised the cost millions above the
>original price.
>
>     The construction on a new line to Pasadena that follows the old
>Santa Fe r-o-w is being worked on right now and expected to open in 2003
>. Further construction to East LA is being pushed aklong by the area's
>people and may get funding soon.  So the original debicle has not
>stopped extensions to the original system .
>
>


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