More than eighteen years ago, the Onion reported that “98 percent of commuters favor public transit for others” so that everyone else can drive on uncongested roads. That hasn’t changed, as in 2016 Los Angeles overwhelming voted for measure M, which will spend $120 billion on transit improvements, yet ridership there has dropped from 600 million trips in 2016 to 550 million annual trips in 2018.
To find out why this is happening, UCLA researcher Michael Manville, an associate professor of urban planning, did a survey of 1,450 Los Angeles-area voters and found out the Onion was right: very few voters supported the transit tax because they expected to ride transit. Instead, nearly 70 percent of supporters voted for it because they thought it would relieve congestion and reduce air pollution.
“In truth, taming traffic isn’t what transit does best,” observes CityLab in its review of Manville’s study. “Done right, it brings low-cost, efficient mobility to the masses, even when the roads are jammed.” But spending $120 billion on high-cost, low-capacity transit lines is hardly the definition of “done right.”
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Manville never really comments on the campaign that led people to believe that transit would relieve congestion, a campaign that used a lot of public funds to essentially lie to people about the value of transit. Metro, the agency that benefits from the measure, now has a report on line crowing about “how to pass a mega-transit measure” that describes all the steps the transit agency took to sell the measure to the public. Of course, government agencies are not allowed to lobby the public, but all of this work was done in the name of “public education.” Education or not, it’s still lies.
Denver residents should take note that the person credited with “leading and implementing the successful Measure M Public Education Program” in Los Angeles has been hired by Denver’s Regional Transit District (RTD). In 2004, RTD successfully deceived Denver-area voters into thinking that building several new rail lines would relieve congestion, but due to cost overruns it has been unable to complete all of those lines. So it is not hard to imagine that RTD wants to go back to the voters with another tax increase.
That last part with RTD just plays into Denver’s core problem, it has become a colony of California.
Denver…has become a colony of California.
Complete with a newly installed Democratic governor, treasurer, secretary of state, house and senate majorities. Its slide into a high tax/high poverty/high crime blue state sh*thole just took a Great Leap Forward.
Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups
To assume that other people are gonna ride transit just because you dumped billions into it, when everyone has the same assumptions…………..you end up with the same conclusions
Funny how you teahadi’s aren’t against socialism when it comes to roads :$
@Highwayman
That’s because for 120 Billion you could refurbish half the Interstate.
Highwayman, I’m sorry to see you continually exhibit a disdain for Arabs with your derogatory use of the term “teahadi”.
Problem is ideology, I have no disdain for someone’s biology
YOU DO NOT EVEN LIVE IN THE USA!
So? These are universal problems :$
Highwayman is one of the better imports from Canuckistan, e.g., like Jordan Peterson’s services in the area of combating political correctness. And the complete opposite of ham actors like Shitner.
Thanks Mr Setty, I like Dr Jodan Peterson too, I find it amazing just how much the Feminazi/SJW’s and the teahadi’s have in common. They all want despotism, but just under different brand names :$
That’s ironic. Feminazi’s and SJW’s all support mass transit, since cars are examples of “white privilege”.
Highwayman, I’m sorry to see you continually exhibit a disdain for Arabs with your derogatory use of the term “teahadi”. SOme consider that to be xenophobic. Others would call it racist.
Highwayman is one of the better imports from Canuckistan, e.g., like Jordan Peterson’s services in the area of combating political correctness. And the complete opposite of ham actors like Shitner.
And haughty, hypocritical musicians like Neil Young, who spends lots of time flying to and from his 17-acre Malibu compound in carbon-spewing private jets while lecturing Americans about our wasteful energy habits. They guy’s got a carbon footprint probably 100x the average American.
metrosucks; That’s ironic. Feminazi’s and SJW’s all support mass transit, since cars are examples of “white privilege”.
THWM; Actually they don’t care mass transit, they are faux environmentalists & they mostly drive :$
(With the rainbow unicorn wanting to stop a freight train, it makes me wonder what they are smoking :$)
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Weird how all those high-tax/high-crime states do better in every livability metric (jobs, childhood pregnancy, obesity, environment)
Super weird. Wonder why?