Negative thoughts on metro in general

T. Daggers daggers at knoware.nl
Thu Mar 9 18:06:56 JST 2000


Dear Paul,

It sounds interesting your thesis wich relates restraining car use to "relatively " low cost investment for the time being.
Here are some figures from Henry Malbran R, ( hmalbran at mtt.cl)which he presented on a seminar in Lima Peru last year which might be of interest to you.(or others)
Henry 's point is that he states that Latin American cities are caracterized by massive public transport. Local autorities have to make decisions in that context and put "the car in its place"He presented the following table:

Capital cost by km for diferent tecnologies of transport
(in Million U$)
Busway  			< 0.5
Solobus Sistem		2-10
Tramway			5-15
Light Metro(rail)		10-30
Heavy metro (subway)	40-90

Kind regards,

Ton Daggers
Transport Consultant
IBC
the Netherlands

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