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by John Charles on February 11, 2013 in Cascade in the Capitol, John Charles, Publications, Tax and Budget, Testimony, Transportation

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The CRC Plan for Light Rail:

A Step Backwards for Transit Customers

John A. Charles, Buy advair pills, Jr.

Cascade Policy Institute

February 2013

Metric	TriMet Yellow MAX Line to North Portland	CTRAN Express Buses Serving Downtown Portland

Capital cost of expanding light rail to Vancouver	$932 million	$0
2011 annual operating cost	$10.2 million	$5.04 million
Operating cost/hour	$270	$110
Annual hours of service	40,492	45,996
Farebox recovery ratio for operations cost	47%	67%
Cost/new vehicle	$4,200, advair us,000	$458,333
Peak-hour frequency	Every 15 minutes	Every 10.3-15.5 minutes
Peak-hour travel speed	15 MPH	31-45 MPH
Travel time, Advair prescription, Vancouver to Portland	36-38 minutes	16 -18 minutes
% of passenger seating capacity actually used at the peak period	34%	38%

Promises of Frequent Transit Services: Hope Over Experience

According to the most recent finance plan for this project, “Light rail in the new guideway and in the existing Yellow line alignment would be planned to operate with 7.5 minute headways during the “peak of the peak” and with 15-minute headways at all other times. This compares to 12-minute headways in “peak of the peak” and 15-minute headways at all other times for the existing Yellow line.”[1]

In fact, the Yellow Line runs at 15 minute headways all day, discount advair, with even less service at night. Yet according to the FTA Full Funding Grant Agreement for the Yellow Line, service is supposed to be operating at 10-minute headways at the peak, Advair buy online, improving to 7.5 minute headways by 2020. TriMet is violating its FFGA contract, which could lead to a denial of funding for the $850 million grant request that the CRC project plans to make.

The Green MAX line is also operating at service levels of at least 33% below those promised in the FFGA.

The legislature should not be expanding TriMet’s territory at this time – especially into another state that already has a transit district – because TriMet cannot afford to operate the system it already has. Despite a steady influx of general fund dollars, TriMet has been cutting service ever since the legislature approved a payroll tax rate increase in 2003, as shown below, buy advair without prescription.

TriMet Financial Resources, purchase advair no rx, 2004-2013 (000s)

	FY 04/05	FY 08/09	FY 10/11	FY 11/12 (est)	FY 12/13 (budget)	% Change 04/05-12/13
Passenger fares	$ 59,487	$ 90, Tablet advair, 016	$ 96,889	$ 104,032	$117,166	+97%
Payroll tax revenue	$171, buy advair cheap,227	$209,089	$224, Find discount advair, 858	$232,832	244,457	+43%
Total operating resources	$308,766	397, advair cost,240	$399,641	$476, Buy cheap advair internet, 364	$465,056	+51%
Total Resources	$493,722	$888,346	$920, buy cheapest advair on line,044	$971,613	$1, Advair tablets, 111,384	+125%

Note: Pursuant to legislation adopted in 2003, the TriMet payroll tax rate was increased on January 1, 2005, advair overnight, will rise by .0001% annually until it reaches a rate of .007218% on January 1, 2014.

Annual Fixed Route Service Trends, Advair in us, 2004-2012

	FY 04	FY 06	FY 08	FY 10	FY 12	% Change

Veh. revenue hours	1,698,492	1, advair rx,653,180	1, Advair pharmacy online, 712,724	1,682,180	1, advair discount,561,242	-8.1%
Vehicle revenue miles	27, Advair, 548,927	26,830,124	26, price of advair,448,873	25,781,480	23,625,960	-14.2
Average veh. speed - bus	15.8	15.8	14.9	14.7	14.6	-7.6%
Average veh. speed - L. Rail	20.1	19.4	19.3	19.4	18.4	-11.5%

Source: TriMet annual service and ridership report; TriMet budget documents and audited financial statements, various years.

[1] C-TRAN, High Capacity Transit System and Finance Plan, July 20, 2012, p. 4.

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by John Charles on November 8, 2012 in Audio, John Charles, Land Use, Publications, QuickPoints!, Transportation

Buy dexamethasone without prescription, Portland Mayor Sam Adams announced Monday that the reconstruction of Moody Avenue in the South Waterfront neighborhood was finally complete after 19 months of work. Dexamethasone order, This $51 million project rebuilt 3,200 linear feet of the street by raising it 14 feet and widening the right-of-way to 75 feet, dexamethasone uk, Dexamethasone overnight, enough space to accommodate a six-lane freeway.

However, buy dexamethasone cheap, Cheap dexamethasone in usa, despite the huge expansion, motorists are actually worse off than they were before, dexamethasone no rx. Lowest price dexamethasone, Only two lanes are reserved for motor vehicles, and they now have to share space with the slow streetcar, buy dexamethasone without prescription, Discount dexamethasone, which blocks traffic four times an hour in each direction. Virtually all of the new right-of-way is allocated to bicyclists and pedestrians, dexamethasone bangkok, Purchase dexamethasone no rx, who only account for 13% of total passenger throughput on the street.

Motor vehicles do the heaving lifting, moving 63% of all passenger trips on Moody, buy dexamethasone without prescription. Not only is this a large number, dexamethasone online, Generic dexamethasone, but it’s growing: Auto traffic is up 55% from just two years ago. As the district continues to develop, buy dexamethasone, Online pharmacy dexamethasone, this road will be unable to handle future traffic loads.

The Moody Avenue project was a waste of $52 million, dexamethasone in us, Discount dexamethasone no rx, and it now has the South Waterfront district locked into a street pattern that is doomed to fail. Taxpayers should demand better from their elected leaders, buy no rx dexamethasone. Canadian pharmacy dexamethasone, John A. Charles, buying dexamethasone online, Jr. is President and CEO of Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization..

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by John Charles on March 15, 2012 in John Charles, Publications, Tax and Budget, Testimony, Transportation

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President, Cascade Policy Institute

Before the Joint Committee on Legislative Oversight on Columbia River Crossing

Regarding the Proposed Light Rail Extension to Vancouver

March 15, canadian tetracycline, Tetracycline free sample, 2012

The CRC is fundamentally a light rail project. Therefore the first task for the Oversight Committee should be to rigorously assess the purpose and need for light rail, order tetracycline overnight delivery. Low price tetracycline, Specifically, what transportation service will light rail provide, order generic tetracycline, Order tetracycline in canada, and how does that service compare with express bus service currently offered by CTRAN.

It is important that the comparisons be made on a side-by-side basis, tetracycline cheap drug, Tetracycline malaysia, not system-wide. The reason is that the cost-effectiveness of TriMet’s light rail system varies considerably by line. The Yellow line is the least productive MAX line in the entire system[1], averaging only 127 boarding rides/vehicle-hour, buy tetracycline without prescription. In contrast, online tetracycline, Find tetracycline online, the most productive line (Blue) averages 166 rides/vehicle-hour.

A summary of key metrics clearly shows that light rail compares poorly:

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	MAX Yellow Line	CTRAN I-5 Express buses

Peak-hour travel time*	36 minutes	16 minutes
Total capital cost, 2012-2020**	$856-$944 million	$4-$8 million
% of operations cost covered by fares***	47%	67%

*Derived from the FEIS and CTRAN published schedules, buy tetracycline in us. Tetracycline discount,

**Various CRC finance documents; author’s estimates for CTRAN.

***Personal communication with finance staff of the respective agencies, 3/14/12.

Travel Speed: The only reason to add new transit service is to make bi-state travelers better off, tetracycline internet. Buy tetracycline without prescription, Light rail would make them worse off, by lengthening commute times by 125%. The attached paper by transit consultant Thomas Rubin provides a more detailed analysis. Find no rx tetracycline, This is a fatal flaw that cannot be overcome, because MAX is an all-local system, buy generic tetracycline, Drug tetracycline, and it is competing with Express Bus service.

Cost: At roughly $300 million/mile, this would be the most expensive transit project in Oregon history. For comparison, the Milwaukie LR project is estimated to cost $211 million/mile while the Emerald Express BRT project in Eugene-Springfield cost $6 million/mile.

Light rail proponents have long argued that the high capital costs of rail are offset by savings in operations cost, but that is based on systemwide averages. Actual numbers for CTRAN I-5 Express Buses and the Yellow MAX line suggest that there will be no operating cost savings for light rail. CTRAN recovers 67% of bus operating costs from passenger fares, while the Yellow MAX line collects only 47%.

Conclusion: Vancouver light rail would serve no public purpose and would have extremely low ridership. The Legislative Oversight Committee should euthanize it as soon as possible.

[1] TriMet FY 2012 Transit Investment Plan, P. 103

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by John Charles on February 29, 2012 in Audio, John Charles, Press Releases, Publications, Transportation

Buy clarinex without prescription, This week John Charles is in Honolulu, HI where he will be speaking at two conferences related to a proposal there for a new light rail line. John will be explaining why so-called ‘transit-oriented development’ doesn’t work the way planners think it does, tablet clarinex. Order clarinex in canada, Tuesday morning, John was interviewed by local TV station KHON-2 News where he spoke about the pros and cons of fixed rail transit versus "rubber tire" bus service and the benefits of one over the other for Hawaii and most locations around the world, clarinex from canada. Clarinex discount, Click here to view the full 3-minute interview. No rx clarinex. Buy clarinex internet. Order discount clarinex. Clarinex order. Buy clarinex lowest price. Clarinex in us. Purchase clarinex online. Order clarinex no prescription required. Cheap clarinex without prescription. Cheap clarinex internet. Clarinex buy. Drug clarinex. Sale clarinex. Buy clarinex pills. Low price clarinex. Real clarinex without prescription.

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by John Charles on September 29, 2011 in Commentaries, John Charles, Publications, Transportation

Buy avapro without prescription, As a young environmental activist growing up in north Jersey in the 1960s, I took transit buses all over – into Newark, Elizabeth, and New York City. Later, Buy avapro on internet, as a college student in Pittsburgh, I took Greyhound across the state many times to get home.

For environmentalists, avapro sales, it was a badge of honor to abandon our 9 MPG autos and travel on a bus with 35-45 other passengers. Buy avapro canada, The oil embargo was very real. We had odd/even license plate days for gas fill-up in 1973, so it seemed like a form of patriotism to be frugal, drug avapro.

Times have certainly changed, buy avapro without prescription. Cars have become more efficient, Best price avapro, and chronic urban smog has permanently disappeared due to improved auto technology. That’s the good news. But the bad news is that many transit agencies are no longer content to merely provide a service to those unable or unwilling to drive in a private vehicle, avapro prescription.

Portland is the poster child for this problem. Buy avapro without prescription, In fact, TriMet doesn’t really care about transit service per se; the agency is obsessed with expensive trains that are supposed to recreate the way entire neighborhoods function, through “transit-oriented development.”

TriMet is so contemptuous of bus service that the agency is building massively expensive trains that simply replace cheap buses. Discount avapro online, And the replacement service is actually worse. The Milwaukie light rail line, now being built by TriMet (even though they have very little of the required funding in hand), buy cheap avapro online, is breathtaking in its sheer wastefulness. Free avapro, It will cost $205 million per mile for a train that will average 17 MPH. It will make the daily commute for current Milwaukie bus riders worse by forcing them to transfer to rail at Milwaukie. Rail will never offer express service; but there are already at least four bus routes on McLoughlin that offer a menu of local, limited-stop, and express bus routes, buy avapro without prescription.

Worse yet, order avapro in us, the train will take 68 businesses and 20 residences. Order avapro online, More than 60 mature shade trees on SW Lincoln Street near PSU are being cut down this week.

How can one government agency spend $1.5 billion for a mere 7.3 miles of train service, to provide a level of transit that is demonstrably inferior to bus service being replaced, buy avapro us.

The answer is that TriMet is institutionally designed to fail. Buy avapro without prescription, The agency has a monopoly on service and a monopoly on subsidies. Lowest price avapro, Actual customers only account for about 25% of the agency’s operating revenue and none of the capital funds used for construction. So customers don’t really matter. TriMet does what its management wants, canada avapro, simply because it can. Avapro canada, I was down at Lincoln Street for an hour watching the trees getting cut. It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen a governmental agency do, buy avapro without prescription. The street is already served by the #17 bus. The train is simply unnecessary, avapro online without a prescription. Yet, Buy avapro online cheap, for the 906-foot segment of Lincoln Street that is being wrecked, we will spend $35.2 million.

If you had $35 million to spend to improve three blocks of an urban street, avapro buy online, how would you spend it. Buy avapro without prescription, Not on light rail. Generic avapro, Not if it was your own money. Not if you actually cared about the urban environment.

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The day the Portland City Council put private bus companies out of business in 1968 was a sad day in local history. Private companies could never get away with destroying a street like this or spending $1.5 billion on a pointless boondoggle.

TriMet is hopelessly corrupt. It’s time to admit that the agency is out of control and has utterly lost sight of its mission. Maybe in 2012 the legislature should consider abolishing this rogue agency, and starting fresh with a market-driven transit concept that focuses on actually serving customers with the best transit at the lowest public cost.

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by John Charles on June 16, 2011 in John Charles, Publications, Testimony, Transportation

Testimony before the TriMet Board of Directors

Regarding Resolution 11-06-38

Application for a Full Funding Grant Agreement with FTA for the Milwaukie Light Rail Line

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In your consideration of this Resolution, please focus your attention on the second “Whereas” clause: “Federal assistance will impose certain OBLIGATIONS upon the applicant.”

I suggest you review and UNDERSTAND those obligations BEFORE you approve the resolution. Canada brahmi, Your predecessors approved a similar resolution for the Green MAX Line, yet TriMet is now operating that line at service levels 33% those originally planned do to financial problems, find discount brahmi online. Brahmi, How, specifically, brahmi pharmacy online, Brahmi cost, will TriMet operate this line successfully when there is not even a plan to fully restore transit service over the next decade. I’ve sent you all a copy of my letter to FTA about the Green Line, buy brahmi online without prescription. Compare brahmi prices online, No one from TriMet has responded or even acknowledged receipt of the letter. I’ll take that as an admission that you don’t HAVE a response.

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The $25 million promised from Clackamas County is unlikely to be available when you need it, due to an initiative petition being circulated that would require a public vote on new urban renewal districts, brahmi pills. Cheap generic brahmi, The only option Clackamas County has to generate the $25 million is through Urban Renewal. We know from the recent county defeat of the small, brahmi alternative, Brahmi without rx, $5 motor vehicle fee for the Sellwood Bridge replacement that Clackamas County voters would likely vote against Urban Renewal by a wide margin.

The legislature may begin requiring all units of government to begin making annual required payments into OPEP trust funds, which would be a $60 million hit to TriMet’s general fund.

What is TriMet’s “Plan B” if you lose the arbitration dispute with the ATU, drug brahmi online purchase. Buy brahmi without prescription, The boad’s only public statements have indicated that loss of arbitration would result in more service cuts. Brahmi purchase, How will you operate the Milwaukie line successfully if you are reducing service for the 5^th time in less than 3 years?

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This will be a dark day in the financial history of TriMet when you approve this resolution. TriMet’s “business model” is broken, and now you plan to make things much worse. I just want the record to show that you knew all of these risks when you voted YES.

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by John Charles on May 2, 2011 in John Charles, Press Releases, Publications, Reports, Transportation

A study Buy trental without prescription, released today by Cascade Policy Institute shows that TriMet’s so-called “High-Capacity Transit” system – comprised of light rail, the Portland Streetcar and commuter rail – is incapable of actually moving large numbers of people when needed. Moreover, most of the time there is no demand for high-capacity transit because the region’s population is too dispersed, compare trental prices, and people prefer to travel by modes other than passenger rail. Tablet trental, The study, Light Rail, Streetcars & the Myth of "High Capacity Transit, find trental online, measured actual trip choices made during 2010 at five big events when presumably “high-capacity” transit would be in demand: the Portland Green Building home show held in March at the Multnomah County Expo Center; the opening night show of the Cirque du Soleil in April; the final playoff game of the year for the Portland Trail Blazers in May; “Black Friday” at the Cascade Station shopping center in November; and December 21st at the Gresham Civic Station shopping center in December. Buy trental from india, The results were:

Light rail use at the Green Home Show averaged 20% of all passenger-trips;

Streetcar use at the Cirque du Soleil opening show was 8%;

Light rail use at the Blazer game was 21%;

Rail use at Cascade Station averaged 2% over a two-day period in November; and

Light rail at Gresham Civic Station carried 2% of all passenger-trips for the morning commute period and 2% of all passenger-trips for the mid-day shopping period.

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Summary Totals
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	Green home show	Circus	Blazers	Cascade Station	Gresham Station	Totals	Market share (%)

Rail	516	110	4, buying trental online,238	333	120	5, Find cheap trental, 317	11%
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The reason for the modest transit totals is that light rail is inherently a low-capacity system, order trental cheap online, because there are only two rail cars per train. Trental tablets, The system cannot use more than two cars because trains travel on surface streets in downtown Portland. If trains had 8-9 cars, as is common with the New York City subway or other heavy rail systems, trental online, the trains would be blocking downtown intersections for minutes at a time. Buy cheap trental internet, Also, trains generally cannot run at greater frequencies than every three minutes due to operational and safety requirements. Buy trental without prescription, In most cases, trains only run every 12-15 minutes, or less often. These constraints limit passenger-throughput compared to a bus transit system where vehicles can travel with minimal spacing requirements.

Cascade President John A. Charles, Jr. conducted the research with the help of several assistants. He stated, "The field research shows that continued use of the phrase ‘high-capacity transit’ by local planners to describe the regional rail program is Orwellian. Light rail is actually a low-capacity system, and the streetcar is simply irrelevant. TriMet’s buses carries two-thirds of all regional transit trips on a daily basis, and that’s the service that should be recognized as high-capacity transit. Unfortunately, bus service is being sacrificed by TriMet in order to build costly new rail lines that carry relatively few people."

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by John Charles on February 2, 2011 in John Charles, Publications, Testimony, Transportation

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Lake Oswego politicians want to spend more than $400 million in tax dollars to build a five-mile trolley line to service 1,900 transit riders, cheap ashwagandha pill. CPI President John A. Charles, Buy ashwagandha on internet, Jr. testified before the Lake Oswego-Portland Transit Project Steering Committee on January 24^th. In his testimony, he explained why a simple express-bus option would provide better commuting times at far lower cost, buy ashwagandha without prescription. Read the whole testimony below.

Testimony Before the Lake Oswego-Portland Transit Project Steering Committee

John A, ashwagandha in australia. Charles, Jr.

January 24, Ashwagandha prices, 2011

I wish to make three brief points at this hearing.

First, the supposed operating cost savings associated with the streetcar don’t exist. Proponents are confusing light rail with streetcars; a two-car light rail train may Buy ashwagandha without prescription, have efficiencies in reduced labor, but that advantage is lost in a one-car streetcar.

Moreover, a bus brings in much more fare revenue at lower operational cost than a streetcar, because the bus operator is also the fare inspector. For light rail or the streetcar, cheapest ashwagandha, operators are hidden away in locked compartments, so expensive fare inspectors must be hired. Order ashwagandha overnight delivery, In fact, the cost of fare enforcement has been so expensive for the streetcar that for most of the past 9 years, there have been no fare inspectors at all, so it has generated little revenue, ashwagandha tablet, as noted below:

Summary Operating Statistics for Streetcar Operations

2005-2010

	Annual boardings	Total annual fares	Total operating cost	Cost per/boarding	Revenue per/boarding

FY 05-06	2.59 million	$100,605	$3, Cost ashwagandha, 727,014	$ 1.44	$ .04
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In contrast, riders on the #35 bus pay much more per/boarding:

Summary Operating Statistics for #35 Bus Line

	Average weekday boardings	Estimated total daily fares	Daily operating cost	Cost per/boarding	Revenue per/boarding

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Thus, replacing the #35 means that the farebox recovery ratio for transit service in that corridor would drop from 37% of operations cost on bus to 4% on rail, buy ashwagandha canada. And since the streetcar also has much higher capital costs, the streetcar is simply infeasible. Ashwagandha in malaysia, Second, the easiest way to improve transit in the HW 43 corridor would be to augment the #35 line with Express Bus service operating from Oregon City to Portland on HW 43, only at the morning and afternoon peak periods. If the current stop at the Lake Oswego transit center were eliminated on the #35 Express (a time savings of 7 minutes by itself), and the total number of stops between Lake Oswego and the South Waterfront District were reduced from 26 to 5, ashwagandha online without prescription, express service would shave roughly 15 minutes off the trip for the Lake Oswego-Portland segment. None of the options outlined in the EIS come close to this kind of improved performance, buy ashwagandha without prescription.

Third, Buy ashwagandha without prescription, this project is really being pushed as a property redevelopment concept, not a transit concept, based on the assumption that high-density neighborhoods with streetcar service generate high levels of transit ridership. But that assumption is false. Over the past several months we have collected actual travel data on all trips entering and leaving the South Waterfront District, online pharmacy ashwagandha, an area widely considered by planners to be a streetcar success story.

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Trip Counts for the South Waterfront District

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	All passenger-trips	Market share of trips by mode

Auto/truck	17,023	79%
Streetcar	1,832	9%
Bicycle	1,076	5%
Bus	926	4%
Pedestrian	642	3%

Note: Research was conducted on various good-weather weekdays during the months of May-January, 2010-2011.

Conclusion

The least-cost transit improvement option for the Macadam Avenue corridor would be to offer express bus service during the peak hours. The Steering Committee should reject the options presented in the draft EIS and terminate all further planning for this project. If property owners in the John’s Landing district or the Foothills Neighborhood of Lake Oswego desire to redevelop their areas with high-density, mixed-use construction, that is their business. But it has no relevance to the topic of improving transit in the Macadam Avenue corridor.