Along the Purple Line, officials at the time they applied for $450 million in federal funds estimated the route would carry 28,800 riders daily by 2030. Extending the Red Line trains north and building the Green and Purple Lines took Metro more than six years and $2.1 billion. It is the same skepticism raised when Metro expanded its light rail lines. “For the whole project and all the mega-projects that they want us to pay for, I just have serious doubts.” “I really don’t know if there is any real strategy that can be implemented that will attract more people to take transit,” he said. “The experience of Metro projects is that they carry the same number of riders,” said Neal Meyer, 56, a critic of the agency who has written skeptically of transit plans for years. I have to give them credit for switching it from crazy-expensive light rail to just plain expensive bus rapid transit (BRT) for the referendum, but now the ugly rubber is meeting the pothole-patched road as they transition from nice lines on a map to actual detailed planning, and a hornet’s nest of opposition is stirring up:
Just kidding! Nope, they’re plowing right ahead like nothing happened in the last three years, currently focused on the Universities Line. Since then we’ve had a global pandemic and the rise of remote work along with a transit ridership crash and anemic recovery, so Metro is stepping back to rethink everything… In 2019 Metro convinced 68% of voters to support their $7.5B MetroNEXT plan, which I also cautiously supported.
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