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Re: SMART pay vs. housing cost
Author: theconductor
Date: 07-26-2016 - 14:38

Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
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> I don't see how SMART can ever succeed
> financially,
> because their trains do not go where most people
> need to go -- San Francisco, and SMART is assuming
>
> that many people will ride, even though that will
>
> force most people to transfer to a ferry (or a
> bus?).
> But SMART is completely ignoring a basic axiom of
>
> transportation planning that people hate to have
> to
> transfer from one transit vehicle to another. So,
> SMART
> Board -- don't make your passengers do that, or
> you won't
> have many passengers at all. Then what will you
> do?
>

I'm willing to bet that 99.9% of commuters who use the ferry don't walk to the terminal.

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