Perspective: SF’s proposed downtown railway extension is an unnecessary boondoggle
Perspective: SF’s proposed downtown railway extension is an unnecessary boondoggle
- May 16, 2022
- David Brownstone, economics, The San Francisco Standard, May 16, 2022
The last time a ridership study was presented to the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) Board was in 2009 when a transportation consulting firm projected that 31,500 rail passengers would alight at the Salesforce Transit Center in 2030. This firm’s modeling work on the California high-speed rail project has faced sharp criticism from University of California, Irvine economist [and Professor Emeritus of economics] David Brownstone, who told the Los Angeles Times that the group’s forecasting “mistakes were obvious and crude,” resulting in high-speed rail ridership forecasts being lowered from 90 million to 25 million.
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