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Originally Posted by five apples
I use it every day. There are these long roads to nowhere in Montana, should they not be built because hardly anyone uses it. I guarantee you the ridership on Septa every day is much more significant then the daily rush hour in Montana. Also, what is wrong with expanding transit in the big cities? Why is that a bad thing?
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From a national funding perspective.
Anyone with a car can use any public road.
Only people near a rail line will be able to use that line and only if it goes to where they want.
Roads are a fraction of the cost to construct and maintain than a line.
and here's the kicker... you can ship things on the same road. So a road helps all areas of the economy.
Where mass transit helps move the people it can't move the goods.
a rail line only works for a much smaller amount of uses than a road.
Again.. I want to see more and dedicated mass transit funding. We have enough roads in the US. Some areas still need new roads or larger roads.
and some areas def. need more mass transit. The 76 corridor.
But so does South Jersey where you have roads that aren't able to handle the commuting and that affect the area's other abilities.
Lot's of areas need to get commuters of the road more than just cars.
So where can you move commuters from roads where there isn't light rail?
Where are the areas of the region that have great highway but no rail transit?
Navy Yard's one.
So is South Jersey.
Still think a NE sub needs to go away from the R7 and 95 and too Huntington Valley or retoring a line to Newtown.
Most of your 95 traffic is coming from up there. West of the NE using Woodhaven Road and from Bucks using Woodhaven and 95 and Route 1 to all pile on the City's length of 95 and into the city.
Again cause Eldondre doesn't seem to get this so this is for him.
Imagine you live 10 minutes driving from a rail station.
If you do most likely it's not worth it to drive there and park if your total commute is 40 minutes in a car. (Bucks for example is about 40-45)
So you need to make sure you can get people to this new line who live withing driving range of the destination and the line and that the line IS faster than driving there.
Where this happens you have the highest use like the Main Line and areas along the El or the the RRs or Patco.