Mapleson
Active Member
Just because some bad math goes unchallenged doesn't mean other bits should be neglected.We have a thread on here claiming that a 37 mile LRT results in ~$10 billion in economic activity with little question of it's validity and yet we question the validity of this claim???
I mean question the numbers if you like but how can a single LRT network generate twice the economic activity of a HSR network connecting multiple 1 million+ cities, and question the HSR numbers as being inflated.
$10 billion in economic activity for a project that was going to cost over $15 billion doesn't seem that far fetched, if it's including the cost of construction and operation as economic activity. However, planners have to play the political game and try to spin negatives into positives. I'm not against HSR, just the presentation of certain numbers as being more significant than they actually are.