Comments on: Capitol Corridor ridership sees slight dip

By: John Murphy

John Murphy — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:39:41 +0000

Donald – on what planet are roads and airports paid for by gas taxes and fees? Example: The new Doyle Drive is a completely earmarked project with ZERO percent coming from state or federal gas taxes. While tolls are increasing on the Bay Bridge, they will NOT pay for the bridge replacement.

Federal gas taxes only pay for federal roads. State gas taxes pay for state projects. The road through downtown Suisun is paid for by local taxes – a.k.a. your property taxes or by grants from the state a.k.a. state income and sales taxes.

As a Conservative – you should do some RESEARCH

By: Donald

Donald — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:07:03 +0000

as conservatives it’s up to us to remind others that it’s always more expensive to run a lane of rail than add a lane of concrete. Road building is cheaper and creates more jobs with fewer taxes without rewarding bloated Union workforces on railroads. if roads and airports pay for themselves with gas taxes and fees, why cant rail? if the Liberals are worried about the fuel consumption all they need to do is let us drill domestically not force us into cattle cars of rail socialism. roads and cars are the antithesis of socialism and we need to support them accordingly.

By: Typical County Worker

Typical County Worker — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:20:36 +0000

The problem is that it is too expensive compared to other modes of transportation.

By: Lil

Lil — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:06:50 +0000

“No percentage was listed for Solano County.”

That’s because they only listed the most used stations. The lowest listed, Yolo County (Davis), is listed as having 9% of ridership. Which means that Solano County is below that. For the month of November, Capitol Corridor had 147,845 riders. Solano’s share of that would be no more than 13291. But if you assume that the train is used for commuting, that number doesn’t really represent 13000 individual people since commuters go into work five days a week, four weeks a month. This number actually represents only about 664 unique individuals taking the train from Solano County for the month. So we are spending all this money to build a new station for about 664 people? Even if the new train station encourages a few more people to take the train to commute, it’s not going to be more than just a handful of people. Even if it increases ridership by 50%, that is still only another 300 people. How much is the train station going to cost again? I will vote against any city council person who voted for this. I am done with these people going forward with pet projects while the rest of the city falls into decay.