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[image] Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦 (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Elon is grafting as per usual, it’s government funded:

TBC doesn’t generate revenue from charging passengers (the rides are free)… Only LVCVA provided a substantive reply, and none addressed the question of capacity, nor the outstanding questions about children or passengers with mobility issues.

For instance, during a large trade show like CES, the LVCC will pay TBC $30,000 for every day it operates and manages the system

At a frankly embarrassing capacity too:

If the Loop can demonstrate moving 2,200 passengers an hour, TBC will get $4.4 million

San Francisco’s BART moves about 3-4 million people per month(~ 5,000 per hour)
Boston’s MBTA moves on average 700,000 to 800,000 people per week (~4,1000 per hour)
And then there’s the NYC Metro 2-6 million people per day.

[–] captainlezbian 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly it's just kinda cringe that las Vegas doesn't have a train system. Sure it's wider than tall but they could do the Japanese style two tier train pricing (low cost every stop, crammed in, and higher cost express that's less frequent and has assigned seating).

[–] smitty825 4 points 1 week ago

Las Vegas has a monorail but it only connects a handful of casinos on the strip. There had been proposals to connect it to Downtown Vegas and the airport, but I don’t think that there is any money set aside to make it happen.

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