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Originally Posted by electricron
You have a great point. One could look at the cheaper regional rail CapMetro is building and about to put into service as the means to restore the full sales tax revenues.
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CM HAS the full sales tax revenue.
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To design an efficient Intermodal Transit Center, one needs to know before designing and building it all the anticipated modes that will be using it. Which explains why it wasn't included with the initial regional rail build. But it can be easily added in the future when other modal plans are further developed.
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Intermodal centers are a load of crap. Daily commuters are incredibly turned off by transfers of ANY type, even "good rail" to "good rail", as evidenced by the fact that six billion has been invested to bring the LIRR closer to more offices in Manhattan despite the fact that it already had really good transfer options to the subway.
And Austin's parking is cheap, and our traffic is nowhere near as bad. We're not competing against a much slower drive to a parking space that costs Manhattan prices. We're competing against a drive that takes roughly as long as the 2000 LRT route would have taken to get straight in - the commuter rail plus shuttle trip will actually be quite a bit slower than the drive for most people on most days.
Any time you hear people waxing ecstatic about transfers, especially dressed up in the trendy "intermodal" garbage, beware.
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