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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Purple Line will be slower than existing rail service from Silver Spring to College Park. You think that because it’s not a bus that makes it okay and not a colossal waste of money?

For all of the most obvious use cases, it will either be the same or slower than existing transit. What’s the point of this thing?

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The most obvious use case, in fact the original use case, is Bethesda-Silver Spring. 8.9 minutes on the Purple Line, 21 minutes (or more, depending on traffic) on the J2 bus.[/quote]
11 Billion dollars to take a few thousand people per day 4 miles 12 minutes faster.

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Just wait 'til you hear about highway projects![/quote]
Actually, there is a highway project nearby that provides a great competitor.

MD-200 aka the ICC is 29 miles, cost $2.4 billion to build, serves 35 million vehicles per year and generates over $60 million per year in revenue which means that the capital costs will be paid off in 20 years.

There will never be a transit project that is anywhere close to this successful.

So please tell me more about highway projects. [/quote]

Well, yes, if "success" for you means more vehicle miles traveled, more crashes, more deaths, and more debt for the state of Maryland. That's not how I measure success, though.[/quote]
Nice goalpost moving. However, since you made the claim, please provide data that the ICC is less safe than alternatives on a per trip or per mile travelled basis. [/quote]

“Over the last 10 years, passenger vehicle death rate per 100,000,000 passenger miles was over 20 times higher than for buses, 17 times higher than for passenger trains, and 595 times higher than for scheduled airlines.”

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/deaths-by-transportation-mode/

I mean, duh.[/quote]

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