The Antiplanner’s Law of Rail Transit

March 29th, 2007
I often hear people say things like, “Light rail might make sense in Europe, but it doesn’t make sense here because our city isn’t dense enough.” To which I respond, “Light rail doesn’t make sense in Europe either.” In fact, based on the numbers in the post on moderate-capacity transit, we can derive the following Antiplanner’s [...]

Ho-Hum, Another Rail Transit Project Is Way Over Budget

March 12th, 2007
FasTracks, the $4.7 billion project that aimed to build six new rail transit lines in the Denver metropolitan area, now looks like it will be a $6.5 billion project at least. Transit agency documents obtained by the Denver Post reveal that the latest cost estimates for every single rail line are an average of 64-percent [...]