Interesting article today in the LA Times – a new light rail system (Gold Line extension) just opened, and guess what?
The ridership “is not meeting expectations.”
Surprise!
When it opened on Sunday, 75,000 people rode it for FREE. By the end of the year they now HOPE that 13,000 will actually pay each day.
Mass transit is just another fiscal scam – always costing more than budgeted, and always being used by fewer risers than predicted but it is just a congenital proclivity like liberalism – letting hope overcome experience while ignoring history.
“If we just jigger it a bit here, modify it a bit there and hire different people then this pig will fly.”
No. That pig won’t fly!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gold-line17-2009nov17,0,1210850,full.story
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