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Article #616Re: Wendell Cox comes through for us once again
From: Robert Cote
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 07:09
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 07:09
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In article <B683E1DE.3A08A%mmullen@ispchannel.com>, Merritt Mullen <mmullen@ispchannel.com> wrote: > For Robert Cote and all other involved in the infamous discussion > of the capacity of the transbay tube vs. the Bay Bridge, Wendell > Cox as usual has the answer on his Public Purpose web site. > According to the always misleading Wendell, the average rail line > carries 1/5 the passengers as one freeway lane and NO system > carries more than 1/3 the "volume" of a single freeway lane. So > all of our calculations that seem to have indicated that the tube > carries about 2 to 3 times the number of passengers as one bridge > lane must have been off by an order of magnitude. If you believe > that, I have a Bay Bridge I would like to sell you. -Light Rail- and I tend to beleive it for light rail.
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