Colorado's Light Rail: Success?
21 August 2000 - 11:00am
Critics claim Colorado's Regional Transit District officials are manipulating numbers to demonstrate success.
Estimated ridership on the new southwest light-rail line during its first month has exceeded Regional Transit District projections by 32 percent. But critics say RTD underestimated ridership so the agency would look good once the line got under way. And they insist that the only meaningful comparison is whether light rail cuts traffic on the roads.
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The Rocky Mountain News, August 21, 2000
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