U.S. NEW URBAN RAIL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
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City
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Type of
Rail
System
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Actual Passengers Compared to
Projection
|
Capital Cost Overrun
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Operating
Cost Overrun
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Cost per Each New Transit Ride
|
Cost per Annual Commuter
|
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Atlanta
|
Heavy Rail
|
|
+58%
|
205%
|
$29.47
|
$15,030
|
|
Baltimore
|
Heavy Rail
|
-59%
|
+60%
|
|
$13.56
|
$6,916
|
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Buffalo
|
Light Rail
|
-68%
|
+61%
|
12%
|
|
|
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Detroit
|
Automated
|
-83%
|
+50%
|
47%
|
|
|
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Miami
|
Automated
|
-74%
|
+58%
|
84%
|
|
|
|
Miami
|
Heavy Rail
|
-85%
|
+33%
|
42%
|
|
|
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Pittsburgh
|
Light Rail
|
-66%
|
-11%
|
|
$34.64
|
$17,666
|
|
Portland
|
Light Rail
|
-54%
|
+55%
|
45%
|
$9.49
|
$4,840
|
|
Sacramento
|
Light Rail
|
-71%
|
+13%
|
-10%
|
|
|
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Washington
|
Heavy Rail
|
-28%
|
+83%
|
202%
|
$11.97
|
$6,105
|
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Average
|
|
-59%
|
+46%
|
+78%
|
$19.83
|
$10,111
|
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Don Pickrell, Urban Rail Transit Projects: Forecast Versus Actual Ridership and Costs (Washington, DC: US Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1989).
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