3 thoughts on “That’s Two

  1. Just for kicks, I took a look, and apparently about 2 million people are injured each year driving–30,000 fatally. The first is an injury rate of something around 1/million vehicle miles, the second is about 15 injuries/billion vehicle miles.

    http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811856.pdf

    So if we assume that ridership of the Green line is about the same as Hiawatha–10 million riders/year going an average of, say, 10 miles–the line will be “about equal” with driving if they have 1-2 fatalities per year and 100 injuries. Of course, the promise of transit is that there would be fewer fatalities associated with it, but that won’t bother the boosters.

  2. Could be that the train drivers are simply reassigned bus drivers…many of whom seemingly do not belong behind the wheel of ANY type of vehicle whatsoever.

  3. Adrian, even if true, it illustrates what’s wrong with the system. 50 ton carriages, steel on steel (“bearing”, not a “brake”), going through the bar district. You could have every operator be perfect, and you’d still have problems. It’s a system designed to fail.

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