re: The Red Stick Trolley flopped, so let's try a Tram!!!

They could at least tell us the ridership numbers of the FREE bus that currently runs that route.

If this thing is planned to run every 30 minutes, and it runs for 12 hours then that's 24 rides a day. If it picks up an average of 10 people each round (much more during peak hours and fewer during slow hours) then that's 240 people a day. Let's say it averages that 7 days a week, 52 days a week. We know that some days will be much slower (Sundays) and especially holidays and very cold wet days but lets use that number anyway to be generous.

That's 87,600 rides a year. 1,752,000 rides over 20 years.

Lets say the "fare" is $2 and we paid $18 a ride towards an uber style service where $12 went to the drivers, $4 went to local schools, and $4 went towards maintaining the road that the cars ride on.

Total cost to the tax payer would be $31.5m over 20 years. Use the interest made on that money to extend the program longer and to allow for inflation.

That's $2.5m cheaper than forking up our share of the cost for the tram. In addition to that, my plan provides funding for its own maintenance and labor, AND as a bonus gives $8.76m to the local schools over 20 years.