[sustran] Re: Article in Guardian Newspaper

[Debi Goenka]

Thanks Jack, for the inputs, but I was also wondering that if, for example, a 50 year old road, or part of it was being earmarked for an exclusive bus lane, would it be possible to put a financial cost to this?

We are trying to get some buslanes in Mumbai, and I would like to get some answers. The standard response to bus lanes in Mumbai is that the existing roads are not wide enough - my answer is that in such cases, perhaps such roads should be reserved exclusively for buses!

Cheers

Debi

PS Have now also looked at the very useful stuff on the VTPI website and Transportation Encyclopedia.
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  At 05:50 PM 3/28/03, Debi Goenka wrote:



    Incidentally, how does one fix a cost/value for bus lanes on existing
    roads?

    Cheers

    Debi

  JM: Instead of cost in $ for the right-of-way, one can figure the "cost" in terms of general road capacity foregone by the ROW taking.   In the case of the Orange County (CA) Centerline elevated light rail system, for example, it was computed that at average utilization for these streets, the  one lane x 24.7 miles length taken from surface arterial streets for the stanchions,  would have carried  31,000 person-trips per day. In the build alternative, the light rail system was projected to serve 17,400 person-trips per day, for a net loss of capacity of 13,000 person-trips per day.

  These findings were confirmed in another way by the traffic analysis which found that the light rail system would actually make traffic congestion worse at the 100 or so intersections and links for which congestion effects were calculated.  

  ref:   www.urbantransport.org/taking5.pdf

  Jack
     
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