Quote:
Originally Posted by youngregina
I was actually expecting ridership in the area to be much higher considering the intense marketing and growth of the system in recent years. Salt Lake City is comparable in size and population to Calgary, where ridership is nearly 10 times what ridership in Salt Lake is. Hopefully, people there will begin to recognize the true benefits of the light rail system.
Is the system mostly grade-separated?
|
It's all relative. Calgary got started early with their light rail and the size of your dense city core is much larger than ours.
When everything is said and done come 2013 our light rail system will be almost the same size as Denver's (about 41.3 miles) before the implementation of their FasTracks expansions.
We will probably end up having the same ridership they did for a city that is much smaller (around 65,000 every weekday).