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"The Federal Transit Administration has forecast that there will be 87,500 Silver Line riders by 2030, but only 10,000 will be new transit users. Everyone else will just shift from one form of transit to another - the Silver Line"

that has to come from the EIS - FTA does NOT do their own ridership estimates for new starts. There could be many reasons it was done conservatively. Note the ridership study was done to cost benefit justify the construction of the silver line, and so a "conservative" estimate of transit ridership, would be a low estimate.

If, OTOH, you are looking at justifying highway construction, a low estimate of shift to transit would not be "conservative"

by AWalkerInTheCity on Jun 27, 2012 10:30 am • link • report

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